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Lessons learned on press restrictions from my home country

Luige del Puerto//April 11, 2016//[read_meter]

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Lessons learned on press restrictions from my home country

Lessons learned on press restrictions from my home country

Luige del Puerto//April 11, 2016//[read_meter]

I come from a country with a history of violently repressing journalism. When the dictator Ferdinand Marcos put the Philippines under Martial Law in 1972, among the first casualties were...

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