--- title: Five Best: 2017 Set a Record For Journalists Going To Jail description: 2017 set a record for journalists going to jail, this is what public libraries will lose without net neutrality and more. canonical: https://time.com/5066146/2017-set-a-record-for-journalists-going-to-jail/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-15T17:00:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:16.625Z article:section: Ideas og:title: 2017 Set a Record For Journalists Going To Jail og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5066146/2017-set-a-record-for-journalists-going-to-jail/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2017 Set a Record For Journalists Going To Jail twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 2017 Set a Record For Journalists Going To Jail by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 15, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 15, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**2017 set a record for journalists going to jail for reporting the news.**](https://cpj.org/reports/2017/12/journalists-prison-jail-record-number-turkey-china-egypt.php) By Elana Beiser at the _Committee to Protect Journalists_ **2\.** [**This is what public libraries will lose without net neutrality.**](https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/14/16772582/public-libraries-net-neutrality-broadband-access-first-amendment) By Kaitlyn Tiffany at the _Verge_ **3\.** [**Could these plants someday replace the lamps in your home?**](http://news.mit.edu/2017/engineers-create-nanobionic-plants-that-glow-1213) By Anne Trafton at _MIT_ **4\.** [**Careful use of radiation could fix a deadly heart rhythm — noninvasively.**](https://source.wustl.edu/2017/12/deadly-heart-rhythm-halted-noninvasive-radiation-therapy/) By Julia Evangelou Strait at _Washington University in St. Louis_ **5\.** [**Millennials will inherit the worst U.S. economy since the Great Depression.**](http://highlaine.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/) By Michael Hobbes in _Huffington Post Highline_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5066146/2017-set-a-record-for-journalists-going-to-jail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5066146/2017-set-a-record-for-journalists-going-to-jail/"},"headline":"2017 Set a Record For Journalists Going To Jail","datePublished":"2017-12-15T17:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:16.625Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5066146/2017-set-a-record-for-journalists-going-to-jail/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","plants","Journalism","health","Net neutrality","finance"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5066146/2017-set-a-record-for-journalists-going-to-jail/","name":"2017 Set a Record For Journalists Going To Jail"}}]}] ```