Shortly before PEN America announced the 2019 winners of its literary awards, another organization that promotes the freedom of expression and publication opted to make its own gesture of support.
The London-based Index on Censorship has announced that the online archive of 45 years of publications of Index on Censorship magazine, published by SAGE Publishing, will be free to read globally.
“In a prepared statement, Rachael Jolley, the editor of the magazine,
is quoted, saying, “Free speech is increasingly becoming one of the
most fiercely contested and misunderstood issues of our time.”
Perhaps having looked ahead to today’s (February 27) start of the Trump-Kim meetings
between the United States and North Korea in Hanoi, Jolley says, “It’s
incredibly important that people can trace and learn from trends in
freedom of expression and censorship as we experience many authoritarian
leaders following a similar playbook to the 1970s and 1980s. ... [mehr] https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/02/industry-notes-uk-index-on-censorship-sage-publishing-archive-free/
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