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26 Dec

The U.S. government’s assault on press freedom

CommentaryIn a nation that preaches the virtues of democracy, the United States government has consistently eroded the media’s ability to report — undermining the ideals it professes to uphold. Lawyer […]

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26 Dec

Romania’s struggle with press freedom

FeatureRomanian readers want their news to be fun — and soaked in scandal, Arwen Kidd reports from Bucharest in the King’s Journalism Review.

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26 Dec

Editor of N.S. weekly demoted after advertiser complains

FeatureWas John DeMings’ demotion a blow for press freedom in the town of Digby, N.S., or simply a management shuffle to improve efficiency? As Paul McLeod writes in the King’s […]

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26 Dec

The Asper-ization of Canadian news

FeatureDespite a Senate committee’s renewed warning of the perils of media concentration, Jessica McDiarmid reports in the King’s Journalism Review, Ottawa is doing nothing to curb the loss of voices […]

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21 Dec

Freedom of expression 101

Freedom of expression in Canada Free speech and freedom of the press have long been recognized as cornerstones of Canada’s democratic system of government. In 1938 Chief Justice Lyman Duff […]

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23 Oct

Shooting the messenger

FeatureWorried about press freedoms in Canada? Try reporting the news in Zimbabwe, says Aaron Leaf in the Ryerson Review of Journalism.

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5 Oct

Free expression … within limits

By Dean Jobb As the debate raged over publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in February 2006, about 100 students gathered at the fortress-like administration building at Saint Mary’s University […]

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28 Aug

The struggle for press freedom: A history

The creation of a Western free press was the work of centuries, starting roughly in the 1600s. Only by the end of the 19th century would a free press, along […]

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