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Harry Cassin
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Andy Spalding
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Jessica Tillipman
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Bill Steinman
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Richard L. Cassin
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Elizabeth K. Spahn
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Cody Worthington
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Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Shruti J. Shah
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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
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UNC Professor Penny AbernathyThe journalism school at the University of North Carolina has produced an extensive and brilliant report about the sad decline of the American newspaper industry.
According to the report’s author, Penny Abernathy, the business model for newspapers that worked for 200 years began to fail 15 years ago.… Continue Reading
On Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights gave an important decision safeguarding the rights of journalists when investigating and reporting on the conduct of allegedly corrupt politicians and public officials.… Continue Reading
Over the years, we’ve looked at the correlation between graft and war, debt problems, failed states, earthquake damage, the rule of law, press freedom, and air disasters.… Continue Reading
Last week, Iron Man 3 opened in China. It’s a huge hit there as it is in the U.S.
But according to Foreign Policy, the China version of the film is different than the one seen by U.S.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of the World Association of Newspapers and News PublishersToday is Press Freedom Day, when the world celebrates the virtues of a free press and remembers that in so many countries, press freedom is just a dream.… Continue Reading
After a six-hour trial Monday in Ho Chi Minh City, three bloggers who wrote about corruption in the government were sentenced to long prison terms for ‘spreading propaganda against the state.’… Continue Reading
Three bloggers who reported about alleged corruption in Vietnam are on trial for spreading propaganda against the state.
Nguyen Van Hai, Phan Thanh Hai, and Ta Phong Tan face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.… Continue Reading
Louis Brandeis was right. Sunlight, he said, is the best disinfectant.
We compared the top and bottom countries on the press freedom index with their rankings on the corruption perceptions index.… Continue Reading
At the DOJ’s celebration of Sunshine Week yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder, left, said the DOJ is committed to more transparency and accountability.
The AG said the Justice Department responded to more Freedom of Information Act requests in 2011, reduced the backlog of pending requests, and set the tone for the entire federal government.… Continue Reading
Two newspaper journalists in Oman were sentenced Thursday to five months in prison for reporting alleged government corruption.
Editor Ibrahim al-Mammari and reporter Yousef al-Haj were jailed ‘for insulting the justice minister and his undersecretary by accusing them of deception and fraud in a recent article,’ Reuters said.… Continue Reading
In its landmark 2002 study, The right to tell: The role of mass media in economic development (here), the World Bank said a free press contributes to cleaner governments — and to better education, improved public health, lower infant mortality rates, and higher incomes.… Continue Reading