Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media
- Written by: Kathy Kiely, Professor and Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
When the reporter becomes the story.AP Photo/Bullit MarquezThirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event then heralded as a triumph of Western democratic liberalism and even “the end of history.”
But democracy isn’t doing so well across the globe now. Nothing underscores how...
