Reported VOA Visa Decision Puts Journalists at Risk
"This reported decision puts the lives of intrepid, free-thinking foreign journalists at risk." More
The PEN Pod: Tough Questions with Suzanne Nossel
“We are absolutely dependent on the role of journalists in helping us sort through fact from fiction, understand the science, know how to keep ourselves safe.” More
PEN America Marks World Press Freedom Day, Celebrating Journalists Providing Life or Death Coverage Amid a Crisis
"Now more than ever, truth-tellers play a vital role in maintaining free expression and free societies." More
The PEN Pod: Tough Questions with Suzanne Nossel
“It’s a new normal, where all kinds of actors. . . around the world have recognized that they can, incredibly cheaply, purvey propagandistic messages.” More
The PEN Pod: Tough Questions with Suzanne Nossel
“I always think back to this famous Rahm Emanuel phase, ‘Never waste a crisis’—it’s sort of the idea that in crisis, there lies opportunity.” More
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Near the end of @SalmanRushdie's new novel, the narrator is blinded by an angry rival. It's eerily prescient: Rushdie lost an eye in an attack on him last year; however, the publisher says the manuscript was already completed. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-01-30/salman-rushdies-new-novel-victory-city-reminds-us-how-his-writing-changed-the-world
PEN America said today it is deeply concerned over the arrest of “Cop City” protesters in #Georgia on “domestic terrorism” charges, saying it worried this could lead to a chilling effect on the #RightToProtest in the state. https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-arrest-of-protesters-in-georgia-on-broad-and-vaguely-worded-domestic-terrorism-charges-could-chill-the-right-to-protest/
Censorship in K-12 classrooms has direct consequences for higher ed, according to @JimGrossmanAHA from @AHAhistorians and @JeremyCYoung from PEN America: https://pen.org/the-integrity-of-history-education/