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A free and independent press has been theorized to be a key mechanism of a functioning, healthy democracy. [11] In the absence of censorship , journalism exists as a watchdog of private and government action, providing information to maintain an informed citizenry of voters. [ 11 ]
Wikimania 2007 Citizen Journalism Unconference. Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, [1]: 61 participatory journalism, [2] democratic journalism, [3] guerrilla journalism [4] or street journalism, [5] is based upon members of the community playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.
The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640–1800 (2012). Nelson, Harold Lewis, ed. Freedom of the Press from Hamilton to the Warren Court (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967) Powe, Lucas A. The Fourth Estate and the Constitution: Freedom of the Press in America (Univ of California Press, 1992) Ross, Gary.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding campaign finance laws and free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Free Press, the journal of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom; The Free Press Journal, an Indian daily newspaper; Columbus Free Press, a former monthly "alternative" journal published in Columbus, Ohio, now published as Free Press newspaper, Free Press Express broadsheet and on the website freepress.org
Citizen media has bloomed with the advent of technological tools and systems that facilitate production and distribution of media, notably the Internet. With the birth of the Internet and into the 1990s, citizen media has responded [citation needed] to traditional mass media's neglect of public interest and partisan portrayal of news and world ...
Free Press was an American independent book publisher that later became an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It was one of the best-known publishers specializing in serious nonfiction, including path-breaking sociology books of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law. [18] Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that: