In this video, the late Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) tells the story of writing his famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the myriad challenges he and his wife Mercedes overcame in the process.
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A new survey of press freedom around the world finds the United States has plunged 13 spots, now ranking just 46th among 180 countries.
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In this video, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman talks to Rainey Reitman about today’s anti-surveillance campaign protest: “The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance.” Reitman is the activism director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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This week we remember the influential publisher André Schiffrin who died in Paris on Sunday. In this interview from 2007 Schiffrin discusses his political and economic split with Random House, the experience of starting The New Press, and working with writers like Studs Terkel.
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Anabel Hernandez has been described as one of the most courageous journalists in Mexico. Her book Narcoland links top Mexican government officials to the world’s most powerful drug cartels. In 2012, she received the Golden Pen of Freedom award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
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The Obama administration is facing scrutiny for its role in the imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist who exposed how the United States was behind a 2009 bombing in Yemen that killed 14 women and 21 children. We speak to Mohamed Abdel Dayem of CPJ and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill.
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Self-described book smuggler Tony Diaz, nicknamed “El Libro-Traficante”, is set to launch a small caravan to bring carloads of controversial books into Arizona that were recently banned by public school officials in Tucson after the city suspended its acclaimed Mexican-American Studies program due to a state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies.
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