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On January 25, 2024, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø and the Anti-Defamation League wrote jointly to Princeton University about its ongoing practice of allowing students to be granted no-contact-type orders against student journalists. As ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø and ADL pointed out, Princeton appeared to be granting such orders to any student who requested one, absent even allegations of a policy violation by the journalists, or any modicum of due process. ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø and the ADL called on Princeton to end this deeply chilling practice, which threatened press freedom by allowing students who dislike journalists’ reporting to respond with a no-contact order, effectively stopping future coverage. ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø first wrote Princeton about this practice nearly a year earlier, in January 2023, after a student reporter for The Princeton Tory, wrote about her experience in The Wall Street Journal. 

In a speedy victory for ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø and the Anti-Defamation League, Princeton amended its no-contact order policy on Jan. 26 to conform to parameters we recommended in our joint letter sent the day before.