‘The message of this newsroom assault was obvious: stop messing with drug-trafficking affairs.’

‘With the royal regime’s overt intentions to muzzle the press and radio, journalists have fought back to keep autocracy at bay and the flame of freedom burning.’

In the summer of 2005, Li Datong, editor of Freezing Point, a popular supplement that he edited for China Youth Daily, wrote a lengthy memo to the paper’s editor in…

‘Officials begged the magazine not to pursue the story and then they enticed us with rewards. All efforts to derail our reporting failed.’

‘The government warned that any journalist or news organization that violated the ban would be considered and treated as “rebels.”’

An anonymous letter sent to a prominent journalist ‘promised to teach a lesson to journalists who persisted in their negative reporting.’

‘Independent newspapers and privately owned TV and radio stations lack the economies of scale necessary to become sustainable businesses.’

‘… our ethical and political convictions gave us strength to resist and keep advancing.’

‘There was a problem with acceptance of death; I was never in a mood to accept torture.’

In the working life of most American journalists, courage does not typically define what we do. Holding public officials and corporate leaders accountable, digging through files and records and challenging…