With its coverage of the Assange case and of Zionist efforts to silence its critics, Consortium News has established itself as a leading monitor of free speech rights in the West.
Royal Courts of Justice where Assange hearings took place. (Joe Lauria)
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News
There are few publications these days that have covered the crisis of free speech and press freedom more thoroughly than Consortium News.
We established ourselves as the most comprehensive and in-depth source of news and analysis of the Julian Assange case, one of the biggest press freedom trials of all time.
We broke news in the United States of the Zionist persecution of the Australian journalists Mary Kostakidis and Antoinette Lattouf. And reported on the detention and questioning of British journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act and the imprisonment of Scottish journalist Craig Murray, a member of CN‘s board.
We did courtroom reporting in the trial of Australian whistleblower David McBride. And we’ve published dozens of stories on the repression of the freedom to criticize a government committing genocide.
For our efforts there have been attempts to curb our own speech.
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Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and other newspapers, including The Montreal Gazette, the London Daily Mail and The Star of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for The New York Times. He is the author of two books, A Political Odyssey, with Sen. Mike Gravel, foreword by Daniel Ellsberg; and How I Lost By Hillary Clinton, foreword by Julian Assange.