Free Speech goes hand-in-hand with Right Speech: Mindful journalism needs both

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Free Speech goes hand-in-hand with Right Speech: Mindful journalism needs both

Posted on June 27th, 2015

By Shelton A. Gunaratne

As the lead author of the book “Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach” (Routledge, 2015), I am hopeful that citizen-or professional journalists in Buddhist countries would become the pioneers of adopting mindful journalism as the preferred method of influencing social change.