by Stiv Mucollari | Apr 20, 2019 | Suffolk University
During the communist era in Albania, the Party of Labor controlled the media. Albania had only one-state owned television station and two daily newspapers, and foreign TV broadcasts were jammed.[1] After the collapse of the communist regime, freedom of the press was...
by Gabriel Moran | Apr 11, 2019 | Suffolk University
Around the world, there has been an attack on the media in countries everywhere that experience democratic backsliding. In places like Turkey, Venezuela, Poland and many more, the media remains under attack in most places around the world, with the only states with...
by Daniel Abramson | Apr 9, 2019 | Boston University
Freedom of the press is considered almost unanimously by political scientists and theorists as crucial for a healthy democracy. Freedom of speech, assembly, and press create an environment with many diverse sources of information. An independent press fosters...
by Madison Wadsworth | Apr 4, 2019 | Utah State University
Madison R. Wadsworth It seems as though every day there is another article about the United States President, Donald Trump, calling reporters foul names, trying to bar partisan press from press conferences, or casually dismissing their findings by the now infamous...
by Isabel Colyer | Apr 4, 2019 | Saint Louis University
On Sunday, January 13th of this year, hundreds of Polish residents flocked to an outdoor stage in Gdansk to attend the Great Orchestra of Christmas, Poland’s largest annual charity event. It was the Grand Finale concert, and audiences expected to enjoy the music while...
