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While journalists in Brazil enjoy widespread popular support, restrictive laws pending before Congress and a number of violent attacks against the provincial press sparked concern among press freedom organizations in the country. Efforts to reform the 1967 press law, considered "undemocratic and anachronistic" by local reporters, stalled in the Chamber of Deputies. Although most local…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260