The Canadian Journalism Foundation is launching an initiative to mark the United Nation’s World Press Freedom Day on Thursday. CJF is calling it “World News Day” and will celebrate the work reporters in newsrooms across Canada do to support freedom and democracy. The initiative will come a few days after nine journalists were killed in Kabul, Afghanistan. Monday’s attack was the deadliest assault on reporters since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. “So now more than ever, journalism plays a vital role in ‘afflicting the comfortable.’ ”

Source: thestar April 30, 2018 22:22 UTC