Author Archives: Josh Friedman

Josh Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists and director of international programs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He now chairs the Logan Nonfiction Program advisory board, sits on the advisory board of the Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma, and serves as vice-chairman at the Carey Institute for Global Good.
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Developing a free press

by Josh Friedman

On a trip to Ethiopia in the 1990s, I met with prime minister Meles Zenawi to try to persuade him to stop jailing journalists. Since Meles’ guerrillas had ousted a repressive Soviet-backed dictatorship a few years before, there had been an explosion of exuberant and sometimes wildly inaccurate little newspapers, many of them attacking Meles. So […]

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