When Émile Zola published his open letter denouncing the French military's cover-up of Alfred Dreyfus' wrongful conviction in 1898, he was prosecuted for libel — and won something more important than the case.
Topic
journalism
3 articles across all sections · View on knowledge map →
-
Zola's Trial for J'Accuse -
The Newspaper Didn't Die. It Was Sold for Parts. The collapse of local journalism is not a market failure. It is the predictable outcome of private equity treating public institutions as inventory.
-
The Pentagon Papers at Fifty-Plus: What We Actually Learned The publication of the Pentagon Papers is remembered as a triumph of press freedom. The deeper lesson — about institutional deception and its durability — is less often drawn.