by Alexandra Ross | Feb 11, 2020 | Boston University
Enshrined in the United States Constitution, freedom of the press is integral to the success of democracy. The press serves as the people’s watchdog, a voice for the voiceless, and a check on the power of the government. When authoritarian figures come to power, one...
by Radhika Upadhye | Apr 22, 2019 | University of Chicago
This coming Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Myanmar is set to make a final decision on a case concerning two Reuters journalists who have been detained in the country since December of 2017. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested supposedly for having obtained classified...
by Josie Lui | Apr 20, 2019 | University of Chicago
Two decades after the handover in 1997, many have observed the rapid decline of press freedom in Hong Kong, especially since Chinese President Xi Jinping’s took office in 2013.[1] After the politically pressured expulsion of Financial Times editor Victor Mallet in...
by Emily Dichele | Apr 11, 2019 | Suffolk University
On February 6th, 2019, I attended a Ford Hall Forum event entitled “The Enemy of the People? Freedom of the Press and Democracy” in which Professor Bryan Trabold and Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor for the editorial page at The Boston Globe, spoke about...
by John Stayton | Apr 13, 2018 | University of Memphis
On March 16th 2018, I participated in a philanthropy hosted by a sorority on campus. The event was a lip sync and dance routine that was attended by over 900 members of the campus community. As I was back stage preparing to perform, I had no idea what was...
