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– PEN America stands with local newsrooms to defend free press (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News August 17, 2018

Today hundreds of newspapers across the United States, led by The Boston Globe, published editorials challenging attacks on press freedom. Each publication in its own words stressed the essential role that journalism and news outlets play in undergirding American communities, our politics and policymaking, and the nation as a whole.
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