Spies, secrets and lies

ISSUE: VOLUME 44.03 AUTUMN 2015

How yesterday's and today's censors compare

In the world of the new censors, governments continue to try to keep their critics in check, applying pressure in all its varied forms. Threatening, cajoling and propaganda are on one side of the corridor, while spying and censorship are on the other side at the Ministry of Silence. Old tactics, new techniques.

Editorial

Spies in the new machines

Contents

A look at what’s inside the autumn 2015 issue

Magazine Launch Event

Who are modern technological advances really empowering?

Reporting rights?

In a series of interviews with journalists in the former Yugoslavia, Milana Knezevic reports on the new elites in control, death threats, and the legacy of the post-war period of the early 2000s.

Magazine Extra: Interview

US author Judy Blume talks to Vicky Baker about parents’ and teachers’ overly protective attitudes to young people’s feelings, and how she has spent the last 45 years tackling bans and censorship.

After Argentina’s dictatorship

Former editor of Index on Censorship Andrew Graham-Yooll assess what happened after the regime crumbled, and looks at the new means of controlling the message.

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