I traveled halfway around the world earlier this month for a journalism conference in an unlikely place: Moscow.
It was an invitation-only event, attended by about 300 international journalists, focusing on censorship and what was termed to be a “farewell to mainstream” by Russia’s state-run Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today) International Information Agency.
We debated dicey topics that largely have been off-limits in the dialogue here in the U.S. And I think that’s what was the most striking: Journalists from places like China, Syria, Lebanon, the U.K., South Africa, Russia, Japan, Sri Lanka, and India went to the former Soviet Union to speak openly about global trends toward censorship.
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Sharyl Attkissonis an Emmy award-winning investigative journalist, is a senior independent contributor to The Daily Signal. She hosts the Sunday morning news program "Full Measure" and wrote the New York Times bestseller "Stonewalled." Send an email to Sharyl.
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