The purpose of this report is to raise some of the major challenges to press freedom, full public information, and media responsibility. It consists of several papers presented at a symposium held in Wisconsin in May 1972 dealing with freedom of the press particularly from the perspectives of journalism and law. The first paper discusses constitutional guarantees, accommodations between freedom and permissible restraint, the ever changing patterns and needs of society and the growth of law, and journalistic self-restraint as an alternative to governmental restraint. The second paper reviews Supreme Court decisions on issues of libel and privacy and asks what remains of the rights to reputation and privacy. Five causes for concern about press freedom are presented and discussed in the last paper: neglect by the nation's best minds of responsibilities toward general citizenship, abuse by public officials of democracy's basic precept that government derives from and exists for the public, mass citizen indifference to restraints being put upon press freedom, the changing character of print media ownership, and attacks on the principal practitioners of press freedom by the Nixon administration and its emulators. (SH)