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 World Economic Forum, the much-mocked gathering which brings elites together in Davos.At one point the arguments about standards of free speech even became so heated that Yahoo chief executive Marissa Meyer looked up from her phone. Although to be fair to Meyer, unlike many of her Silicon Valley peers, she was at least in the room. The Charlie Hebdo murders were the topline talking point but underneath the issue of how we deal with a global and unfriendly world for reporters was the real agenda. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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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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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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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