The deputy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists says journalists face two kinds of censorship: state control and intimidation from powerful groups such as militias and drug cartels
Journalists protesting against violence in Mexico
Eritrea has absolutely no independent media at all, it has no independent journalists, the government controls all broadcasting and gives instructions to journalists about what they will write and how they will write itRobert Mahoney
Eritrea has absolutely no independent media at all, it has no independent journalists, the government controls all broadcasting and gives instructions to journalists about what they will write and how they will write it
Burma has released some detained journalists but nevertheless it remains a very, very repressive country as far as the press is concerned
In the last few years with the drug wars in Mexico the drug cartels have intimidated independent journalists into silence
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