Hi Peter,

Today is World Press Freedom Day, a celebration the United Nations established more than 30 years ago to remind the world that a functional, ethical society needs a free press to survive.

That focus feels more essential than ever. Attacks against the press have proliferated. And funding for public media funding — the stuff that helps kids learn to read and adults know what the hell is happening in the world — is also under fire.

It’s almost as if certain powerful people prefer that you have to take their word, and their word only, for what they’re doing. That’s a position that Phoenix New Times disagrees with. We exist to push back on easy narratives and to dredge up new information for you and the people of Arizona.

Today, I’m asking you to stand up for a free press and to celebrate World Press Freedom Day with us. Here are a few ways you can do that:

However you celebrate, thank you. We can’t do this work without people supporting us. To a free press, now and always.

With gratitude,

Sam Eifling
Editor-in-Chief

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