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Journalism and democracy suffered under his reign, and they need protection now. Passing a law protecting journalists could help strengthen a free press.

Journalism and democracy suffered under his reign, and they need protection now. Passing a law protecting journalists could help strengthen a free press.

Mårten Schultz explains why Sweden’s freedom of expression legislation meant police didn’t intervene when copies of the Quran were burned there in recent months

The legal context behind a political controversy.

The president's daughter admits the salacious diary was, in fact, hers.

THE FOUNDATION "A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government." —Alexander Hamilton (1794) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, leaving Palos, Spain, en route to what he thought would be the Indies....

It has frequently been propagated that Nehru was a champion of the highest democratic values. But history tells us something entirely different. He was always intolerant of press‘s scrutiny of his government. He was also deeply annoyed with the court‘s resistance to restrain critical observations made in the press

Ottawa can take inspiration from Norway, which publishes an inventory of public records online, and Mexico, which has a transparency watchdog to issue fines if public institutions are found to have violated FOI laws

Here's some legislation of note: Reps. Kevin Kiley, California Republican, and Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat, have introduced "The PRESS Act" -- some bipartisan and bicameral legislation of interest to the press. That "PRESS" acronym stands for "Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying."

The draft bill was previously cut from the US Spending Bill for 2023 last December 2022. Bipartisan House and Senate Groups both reintroduced a landmark federal shield bill, providing journalists with greater protection.