This fall, Vance Center Executive Director Alex Papachristou spoke on threats to media freedom at virtual panels hosted by the International Center for Journalists and clients URL Media and WURD. The Vance Center’s Lawyers for Reporters program earlier this year assisted WURD, a Black-owned local radio station in Philadelphia, to resolve litigation challenging how it provided health care information to the Philadelphia community. The station’s leadership asked Papachristou to describe the case to the station’s staff in the context of rising threats to media freedom, particularly focusing on minority and marginalized communities enduring longstanding and renewed discrimination. Papachristou later spoke... read more