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WAN–IFRA: “To begin with, you have to say governments are absolutely essential partners for building strong journalism.”
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WAN–IFRA: “I don’t think media pluralism is something where you can check boxes and have a ‘yes-no’ approach."
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WAN–IFRA: “It’s like the independent press sector is kind of unchartered territory.”
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WAN–IFRA: “I don’t think that press freedom is in decline. The good news is that the Italian government is neutral.”
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WAN–IFRA: “I think that we can save our model, if we find a good business model."
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WAN–IFRA: “It’s not only a new sensibility of role of journalism, it’s also a sensibility of public and society.”
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WAN–IFRA: “Are democratic governments beginning to lose their way when it comes to independent journalism and press freedom?”
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WAN–IFRA: “First, I just wanted to say that I think it’s crucial that we have a dialogue with politicians interested in the freedom of the press.”
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WAN–IFRA: “That’s another discussion: are we protecting each other too much?”
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WAN–IFRA: “On the issue of freedom of the press: I think we need to be open, we need to be brave, and we need to work together.”
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WAN–IFRA: “Everyone has the freedom of expression.”
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WAN–IFRA: “We need to take all this [the persecution of journalists] into account when we are moving forward.”
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WAN–IFRA: “The first thing I want to say is press freedom is clearly declining."
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WAN–IFRA: "The year 2013 will go down in history as the worst year for press freedom in Latin America: 429 journalists died from doing their duty and another 25 went missing."
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WAN–IFRA: "Twitter has censored many after petitions from some governments."
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WAN–IFRA: “Even in democratic countries we find cancerous cells.”
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WAN–IFRA: “There is a reality that it is not enough to have law."
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WAN–IFRA: "If you don't have independence, especially editorial independence, what's the purpose of press freedom?"
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WAN–IFRA: "In some ways, press freedom is stronger than ever before."