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Press Freedom Won't Realize With Repressive Laws

Gayathry Venkiteswaran, Assistant Professor of Media and Communications, University of Nottingham

03-May-19 17:00

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On World Press Freedom Day, we speak with Gayathry Venkiteswaran about the media council that is still in formation, and why the legal environment needs to be free for the media to thrive.


Produced by: Loo Juosie

Presented by: Kelvin Yee, Kam Raslan


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Tags:  Evening Edition,  World Press Freedom Day,  WPFD2019,  media council,  Printing Presses and Publications Act,  Sedition Act,  Communications and Multimedia Act,  Official Secrets Act,  Media, Marketing, Advertising,  Politics, News, Current Affairs

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