Journalists are out there every day on the front lines to uncover the facts and understandings that will allow us to find our way back to a more productive democracy where decisions can be made based on mutually agreed-upon facts.
Today, newspapers fought back against President Trump’s attacks on the media in the the best way they know how: they took to the presses. In a unified voice, they called for an end to these attacks and stressed the importance of quality journalism and a free press to hold our government officials accountable.
The News Media Alliance condemns Ayla Albayrak’s sentence and supports the Wall Street Journal in the appeal.
For Free Speech Week, I was going to write about the political climate in the US, but there is an even more egregious attack on the free press happening right now. On Oct. 10, Wall Street Journal staff reporter Ayla Albayrak was wrongly convicted of terrorism charges in Turkey.
