How subpoenas against journalists threaten press freedom
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How subpoenas against journalists threaten press freedom
Journalists rely on confidential sources to uncover information that governments, corporations, and powerful individuals often want to keep hidden. When authorities subpoena journalists in attempts to compel them to reveal their reporting sources, they undermine one of the core functions of a free press in a democracy. The U.S. Department of Justice under the second...
The initiative, promoted by Senators Pedro Araya (PPD), Paulina Núñez (RN), Luciano Cruz-Coke (Evopoli), Alfonso de Urresti (PS) and then Senator Luz Ebensperger (UDI), has generated a wide rejection of journalistic organizations and trade unions such as the Chilean Association of Journalists, the National Press Association (ANP), ANATEL, ARCHI and the Media Federation, in addition to leading constitutionalists, who warn that it could affect pre…
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