Josh Stearns

Josh Stearns
Josh Stearns fights for press freedom through media and tech policy. He's the journalism and public media campaign director at Free Press and a founding board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Follow him on Twitter @jcstearns.
Committee to Protect Journalists report gauges the press freedom crisis

Committee to Protect Journalists report gauges the press freedom crisis

It’s nearly impossible to gauge the full impact of harassment of the press. How do you measure the stories that go untold because a journalist felt intimidated? How do you quantify the corruption that won’t be exposed because sources are afraid to talk? When the impact of threats is silence there’s no way to assess what we’re missing, Josh Stearns of Free Press writes

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