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Free Press (advocacy group), a USA media advocacy organization founded by professor Robert W. McChesney and journalist John Nichols. Free Press (publisher), an imprint of Simon & Schuster publishing. House of the Free Press, a building in Bucharest, Romania. The Free Press, Cambridge, a pub in Cambridgeshire, England.
The Detroit Free Press (commonly referred to as the Freep) is a major daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, United States.It is the largest local newspaper owned by Gannett (the publisher of USA Today), and is operated by the Detroit Media Partnership under a joint operating agreement with The Detroit News, its historical rival.
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely.
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. After a period under new ownership in the 1980s of publishing neoconservative books, it was ...
The News-Free Press was the first paper in the nation to dissolve a joint operating agreement. [7] [8] That August, the day after the News-Free Press resumed Sunday publication, the Times responded with an evening newspaper: the Chattanooga Post. [8] On Feb. 25, 1970, the Post ceased publication after the U.S. filed an anti-trust suit against ...
This is an overall measure of freedom available to the press, including a range of factors including government censorship, control over journalistic access, and whistleblower protections. The U.S.'s ranking fell from 20th in 2010 to 49th in 2015, before recovering to 41st in 2016. Freedom House, a U.S.-based watchdog organization, ranked the ...
The World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year. It intends to reflect the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations, and netizens have ...
The Los Angeles Free Press, also called the " Freep ", is often cited as the first, and certainly was the largest, of the underground newspapers of the 1960s. [2] The Freep was founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin, who served as its publisher until 1971 and continued on as its editor-in-chief through June 1973. The paper closed in 1978.