by Terri Miller | Sep 21, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights, Media
There are older newspapers in the world than The New York Times – including some current papers in Europe that have existed since the 1600s. Yet the 175th anniversary of The New York Times offers its publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, an opportunity to reflect –...
by Terri Miller | Mar 23, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights
We see daily examples of pressures on press freedom in countries around the globe. Then there is a particularly chilling moment when such pressure becomes an overt threat from one of the oldest democracies in the world, in which freedom of speech is enshrined as the...
by Saskia Rowley | Nov 2, 2020 | Communication Rights
People the world over are willing – some are even praying for – a free and fair election in the USA on November 3. In ordinary times, for that to happen the media must also be free and fair. But these have not been ordinary times. Until very recently, the news media...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 21, 2019 | Communication Rights
In September 2019, in a victory for the principles underlying media democracy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rebuked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by overturning the agency’s latest attempts to eliminate long-standing limits on...
