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• Press -- Political aspects

• Attacks on the Press, by Committee to Protect Journalists (partial serial archives)

• First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c2005), by Maurine Hoffman Beasley (HTML and Epub formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), by Thomas C. Leonard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Facts and Fascism (New York: In Fact, c1943), by George Seldes, contrib. by Helen Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Losing Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia (c2000), ed. by Louise Williams and Roland Rich (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Chinese Media: More Autonomous and Diverse, Within Limits (1997), by Todd Hazelbarth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archvie.org
  • PDF with commentary at cia.gov
• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)
• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Indonesia: Aceh Under Martial Law: Muzzling the Messengers: Attacks and Restrictions on the Media (2003), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Freedom of the Press, by Freedom House (U.S.) (partial serial archives)
• Attacks on the Press, by Committee to Protect Journalists (partial serial archives)

• A Responsible Press Office in the Digital Age (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2012), by Marguerite H. Sullivan (PDF files at america.gov)
• America's Team, the Odd Couple: A Report on the Relationship Between the Media and the Military (Nashville: Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, c1995), by Frank Aukover and William P. Lawrence (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Transforming the Security Classification System: Report to the President (2012), by United States Public Interest Declassification Board (PDF at archives.gov)
• A Review of the Department of Energy Classification Policy and Practice (1995), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)

• Losing Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia (c2000), ed. by Louise Williams and Roland Rich (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Arab Media Systems (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Carola Richter and Claudia Kozman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Underground Press in Belgium (1944), by Belgian Ministry of Information (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Juliette Storr (PDF at University of Calgary)

• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)

• Prelude to Power: The Parisian Radical Press, 1789-1791 (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jack Richard Censer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The German Press in the US Occupied Area, 1945-1948: Special Report of the Military Governor, November 1948, by Office of the Military Government for Germany (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Publicity and Diplomacy, With Special Reference to England and Germany, 1890-1914 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., for the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Virginia, 1940), by Oron J. Hale
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at archive.org; 53 MB

• Publicity and Diplomacy, With Special Reference to England and Germany, 1890-1914 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., for the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Virginia, 1940), by Oron J. Hale
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at archive.org; 53 MB
• The Street of Ink: An Intimate History of Journalism (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1917), by H. Simonis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Press and the Organisation of Society (London: Labour Pub. Co., 1922), by Norman Angell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: J. Murray, 1854), by Charles Knight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation (London: Routledge, 2020), ed. by Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela E. Jaffé, Eryn J. Newman, and Norbert Schwarz (Javascript-dependent PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• The "Free Press": Portrait of a Monopoly (New York: New Century Publishers, 1946), by George Marion
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Eichmann Case in the American Press (1962), by Institute of Human Relations (American Jewish Committee) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present (2012), by C. W. Anderson, Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky (multiple formats at towcenter.org)
• A History of the Services Rendered to the Public by the American Press During the Year 1917 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1918), by Minna Lewinson and Henry Beetle Hough
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Why the Press Failed on Spain! (Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, ca. 1938), by Joseph F. Thorning (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Main Currents in the History of American Journalism (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1927), by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The High Cost of Hate (San Francisco: The author, 1939), by Ralph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Newspaper Syndicates in the United States, 1865-1935 (1936), by Elmo Scott Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Auxiliary Newspaper Service in the United States (Champaign, IL: Illini Pub. Co., 1923), by Elmo Scott Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of Amateur Journalism (New York: The Fossils, 1957), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Structures of International News: A Case Study of the World's Press (typescript report prepared for UNESCO; 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at ed.gov)
• News Analysis: Case Studies of International and National News in the Press (Hillsdale, NJ et al: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Raphael Cohen-Almagor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Off Limits: Censorship and Corruption (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991), by Paul Glickman (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature: A Study of the History of the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, Together With Some Consideration of the Effects of Protestant Censorship and of Censorship by the State (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1906-1907), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Direction Générale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie (1810-1815) (extract from Le Livre, in French; 1887), by Henri Welschinger
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Liberty and the News (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Walter Lippmann (multiple fomrats at archive.org)
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)
• The Free Press (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1918), by Hilaire Belloc
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• You Can't Print That! The Truth Behind the News, 1918-1928, by George Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.