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April 25, 2022 | Freedom of the press and access to factual information are cherished rights in Western democracies. But in a twenty-first century climate fraught with political and economic crises and growing news deserts everywhere, how can reliable international, national, and local independent media survive? Amidst government efforts to cut or abolish funding for public news, the decline of community newspapers, and the struggles of no-longer-profitable commercial media, do venerable institutions stand a chance?
This online conversation will include two veterans of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the vice president of journalism for the Knight Foundation, and an expert analyst of the disappearance of local newspapers.
This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project and the Future of the Humanities Project, a joint endeavor of Georgetown University, and Campion Hall and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. It is part of the monthly series, Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues.
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