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Palin Libel Case Isn’t Likely to End Efforts to Weaken Press Protections
Sarah Palin’s loss of her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times has reaffirmed, for now, more than a half-century…
Ahead of Winter Olympics, Beijing Moves to Quash Dissent
Chinese authorities have detained activists in their homes and sent others to jail. Censors have shut down the social media…
Sarah Palin v. New York Times Spotlights Push to Loosen Libel Law
When former President Donald J. Trump called for scrapping laws that offer the news media broad protection from libel suits…
Eastern Europe Tests New Forms of Media Censorship
BELGRADE, Serbia — When Covid-19 reached Eastern Europe in the spring of 2020, a Serbian journalist reported a severe shortage…
How Beijing Has Muted Hong Kong’s Independent Media
HONG KONG — Citizen News, a small online news site in Hong Kong known for its in-depth coverage of courts…
In 2021, We Were There: The Year’s 14 Most Popular Dispatches
As the world reopened cautiously in 2021, our correspondents seized the chance to venture out in search of stories that…