Dana Bullen
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Dana Ripley Bullen II was director of the Press Freedom Committee, a nonprofit organization based in Reston, Virginia
from 1981 to 1996. He had been the foreign editor of The Washington Star, which closed in 1981, before joining the committee’s staff.
Bullen’s fight against censorship started in 1980 when he worked as a volunteer for the committee. The group’s current executive director, Mark Bench, said Dana Bullen’s efforts “were critical” in organizing successful opposition to a New World Information and Communication Order, first proposed in 1976 by some member nations of Unesco. The order would have allowed those countries to restrict the distribution of news about them.
As executive director, Bullen “was able to see from a distance, though hidden in code words, restrictions by intergovernmental organizations on press freedom”, Bench said. “In many cases, by taking the mask off those code words, he was able to prevent those restrictions.”
Bullen attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Florida
in 1953 and a law degree there in 1956. He worked at The Star for 21 years, as a reporter and then foreign editor.
a former executive director of the World Press Freedom Committee.
He died from cancer, aged 75, in 2007 and was survived by his wife and a brother.
Reston, Virginia
Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The population was 58,404, at the 2010 Census and 56,407 at the 2000 census...
from 1981 to 1996. He had been the foreign editor of The Washington Star, which closed in 1981, before joining the committee’s staff.
Bullen’s fight against censorship started in 1980 when he worked as a volunteer for the committee. The group’s current executive director, Mark Bench, said Dana Bullen’s efforts “were critical” in organizing successful opposition to a New World Information and Communication Order, first proposed in 1976 by some member nations of Unesco. The order would have allowed those countries to restrict the distribution of news about them.
As executive director, Bullen “was able to see from a distance, though hidden in code words, restrictions by intergovernmental organizations on press freedom”, Bench said. “In many cases, by taking the mask off those code words, he was able to prevent those restrictions.”
Bullen attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
in 1953 and a law degree there in 1956. He worked at The Star for 21 years, as a reporter and then foreign editor.
a former executive director of the World Press Freedom Committee.
He died from cancer, aged 75, in 2007 and was survived by his wife and a brother.