With a major of strategic communications looking to focus in political communications, it is important to know and take advantage of your first amendment rights. Story Partners, the location of my internship this summer, is a public affairs agency in DC. They exercise their first amendment right in a multitude of ways. One thing that they do is create different platforms to express their opinions on different political topics. This is crucial to their jobs, as they work in DC, being directly involved in politics.
“Inside Story”, a digital thought leadership platform covering issues that are shaping policy debates in the nation's capital and around the globe, is a great example of how they exercise their first amendment rights. Gloria Dittus, Chairman of Story Partners, wrote an article talking about data privacy protection in the United States. She writes specifically on the California Consumer Privacy Act, explaining it as “the first data privacy law of its kind in the U.S. Enactment of the CCPA follows the implementation of similar data privacy legislation in the European Union titled the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in 2018”. She further explains that consumers are concerned over data privacy and the protection of their personal information without their knowledge on these different sites. Gloria also writes other articles about adapting to the progressing work field, the nationwide shift to clean energy, and on how Infrastructure investments keep Americans safe. Gloria continues to exercise her first amendment rights when talking about politics.
