The U.S. and New Hampshire constitutions protect press freedom. Here’s what that means: A news outlet can call out government corruption. A podcast host can share views you like — and abhor. And you can say in a Substack newsletter why you think the president, governor or any other politician is unfit for office.

The government may not like what it reads and hears, but the U.S. and New Hampshire constitutions say the press, like free speech, can’t be silenced — though government officials have tried. Attorney Greg Sullivan, president of the New England First Amendment Coalition, has represented media outlets in press freedom cases in court for nearly 50 years.

“When members of an organized press are denied access to governmental proceedings, what's lost is the right of the people to gove

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