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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
Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social mediaWhen the reporter becomes the story.AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Thirty-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...

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