by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Jun 6, 2015 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
Xavier Bonilla, who draws for the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo under the pen name Mr. Bonil, was called “sick,” “cowardly,” and an “ink assassin” by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa in January 2014. In this episode, he sits...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | May 16, 2015 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue
Just a few days before four University of Oregon students fly out of Eugene to attend World Press Freedom Day in Riga, Latvia, Andris Razāns, the Latvian ambassador to the United States visited Oregon to deliver an address at Portland State University. Crossings...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | May 16, 2015 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
George Papagiannis is the head of the UNESCO External Relations and Information liaison office. He previously served as the Director of the UNESCO office in Baghdad. In 2006, Papagiannis lived on the border between Chad and Sudan, where he built a 3-station community...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | May 16, 2015 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
Following the January 7 attack on the newsroom of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, 12 people were killed. The attack, instigated by the magazine’s cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, raised numerous questions: what limits should be placed on the press’s...