Durbin chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering a bipartisan bill to enact a press shield law. Durbin is a co-sponsor of the bill, but has yet to schedule it for a markup.
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With dozens of reporters dead in Gaza and others harassed and censored inside Israel, experts are deeply concerned about press freedom in "the Middle East’s only democracy."
Minnesota should be America s Nordic model on press freedom World Press Freedom Index shows the Scandinavian exception to global press repression, and conditions this state should aspire to.
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Coronavirus vaccine is not all that s in short supply worldwide.
Trustworthy, truthful journalism the main vaccine against disinformation, according to Reporters Without Borders is completely or partly blocked in 73% of the 180 nations ranked in the organization s 2021 World Press Freedom Index, which was released this week.
Only 7% of nations have a good environment for journalism, a grim, slim sliver compared with the 20% deemed fairly good, the 33% labeled problematic, the 29% considered bad and the 12% very bad for press freedom. And because so many of the latter categories are representative of more densely populated African or A