ABA Town Hall Focuses on Board's Commitment to Free Speech

The ABA's hour-long Town Hall drew almost 200 participants, with booksellers celebrating the board’s increased diversity, but also concerned about changes made this past fall to the ABA Ends Policies regarding its view on freedom of expression. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-18 05:00:00 UTC ]

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Three topics that publishers have been dealing with in recent years--technology, data, and free speech--were addressed in a series of lively presentations at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Journalists back in the firing line as digital media struggles to protect its own

As it has become harder to censor individual journalists and independent teams, the intimidation, violence and imprisonment has increasedIn a rather dark hotel meeting room, halfway up a Swiss mountain, editors and publishers are having a heated debate about the freedom of the press. This is the... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Supreme court to rule whether ban on abuse memoir threatens free speech

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A Commenting Conundrum

From the outside looking in, it may appear to non-newspaper folks that the industry is abandoning some of its principles—free speech, open conversation, introspection, cynicism—by shuttering a feature of online publishing that& ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

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Outcry as Penguin India pulps 'alternative' history of Hindus

Novelist Arundhati Roy leads chorus of protest after publisher settles lawsuit brought by militant groupConservative activists in India have pledged to continue their campaign to purge bookshelves and schools of works they say are abusive to Hinduism, as a fierce row over a 700-page academic... Continue reading at The Guardian

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