Yesterday Was World Press Freedom Day
May. 4th, 2018 05:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineAnd I neglected to note the fact here, despite doing so over on Facebook on the day itself.
Whatever flaws the Globe and Mail has (and it has a few), its management didn't neglect the occasion. They gave it their front page, naming the names of those journalists who've already died in the line of duty this year. This year is only four months old, and still there were twenty-seven dead per the reports of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
If you want the origin story of World Press Freedom Day, here's one perspective published by the Columbia Journalism Review.
More later...
Whatever flaws the Globe and Mail has (and it has a few), its management didn't neglect the occasion. They gave it their front page, naming the names of those journalists who've already died in the line of duty this year. This year is only four months old, and still there were twenty-seven dead per the reports of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
If you want the origin story of World Press Freedom Day, here's one perspective published by the Columbia Journalism Review.
More later...
