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How should media decide whether to publish controversial images?
When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in 2005, protesters set fire to Danish embassies. Flemming Rose, the paper’s culture editor at the time, was the target of an assassination plot. More than 10 years later,…
Twitter Chat: What is the role of satire in modern society?
How important are political cartoons and other forms of satire to contemporary society?…
Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces grant in honor of press freedom
"Now more than ever it takes so much courage to be a journalist. To understand that every word you may write, every cartoon you might draw could be your last. The chilling effect this can have may result in stories…
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In ‘Rosewater,’ remembering humor and humanity after torture
In 2009, journalist Maziar Bahari was held for months in solitary confinement in a Tehran prison after being charged with being a spy. He turned his real ordeal into a memoir, which has now been dramatized as "Rosewater," a new…
This week, the New Jersey State Supreme Court overturned, by a vote of 6-0, the attempted murder conviction of an aspiring rapper and small-time drug dealer named Vonte Skinner, arguing that the extensive reading of Skinner’s violent rap lyrics during…
High Court weighs balance of free speech, corruption in campaign donation case…
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case involving freedom of speech on broadcast television and the constitutional debate over federal regulation of indecency. Jeffrey Brown discusses the arguments and the potential effects for the FCC with Marcia Coyle…
On the heels of a U.S.-China dispute on Internet freedom, Jeffrey Brown speaks with democracy and media experts about the debate over how countries monitor -- and sometimes restrict -- access to the Internet.
A heated debate over political extremism in the United Kingdom came to a head this week when the leader of the British National Party appeared on a BBC show.
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