Sustaining and Celebrating a Free Press through Libraries: World Press Freedom Day 2018

Since the invention of modern printing, newspapers, newssheets and pamphlets, and in the 20th century radio and television, have been the vehicles of free speech, open debate, and democracy. Editors and journalists have marked their times, popularising new ideas, shaping thinking, and uncovering wrong-doing.   Every effort to censor or block news only serves to […]

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