by David Rubin | Jul 24, 2022 | Dartmouth College
Democracy cannot exist without the freedom of the press. A free and independent media serves as a “watchdog” that can report government wrongdoing and hold individuals and groups accountable. A free press may also provide an avenue for ordinary citizens to...
by Julianna Rossi | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
Poland’s media problem began with President Andrzej Duda’s election in 2015. He started with blatant attempts to control the commanding heights of the media, especially public television. Duda accomplished this by directly controlling messages published on TV...
by James Chen | Oct 25, 2020 | University of Chicago
Earlier in 2020, while the pandemic dominated news headlines across the world, the NGO freedom house pushed out a silent but stunning report. One deeply alarming takeaway – there are now less democracies in the balkans than at any point since the report was...
by Molly Portwood | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In 2016, American trust of mass media was at an all-time low. Gallup found that of 1,020 adult Americans surveyed, 32% reported having a “great deal/fair amount” of trust in the media. When sorted by party affiliation, Gallup found that 51% of Democrats, 30% of...
by Mary Farrell | Mar 19, 2020 | American University
On October 6th, 2018, Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova was found murdered in a park along the Danube. 30-year old Marinova had been a television journalist on Bulgarian channel TVN whose final broadcast before her death featured an interview with two...
