{"id":82148,"date":"2025-10-01T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:04:04","slug":"govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>By: Kruah Thompson<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Liberia has commended the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) for its more than six decades of championing press freedom and protecting the rights of journalists, as the Union celebrates its 61st anniversary of press freedom in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Commending the PUL for its outstanding advocacy, MICAT Deputy Minister for Press and Public Affairs, Daniel Sanoe, emphasized the collaboration between the Union and the Ministry of Information.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the PUL president\u2019s recent appearance at the weekly press briefing is a testament to that relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this note, I now announce our warm congratulations to all members and officials of the Press Union as they celebrate their 61st anniversary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he congratulated the PUL for its longstanding relationship with the Government of Liberia in upholding press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated the government\u2019s commitment to continuously work with the Union in upholding press freedom and creating an enabling environment for the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the Government, the Ministry extends congratulations to the PUL,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Liberia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. By: Kruah Thompson The Government of Liberia has commended the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) for its more than six decades of championing press freedom and protecting the rights of journalists, as the Union celebrates its 61st anniversary of press freedom in the country. Commending the PUL for its outstanding advocacy, MICAT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-82148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-liberia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov&#039;t Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense - Liberia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By: Kruah Thompson The Government of Liberia has commended the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) for its more than six decad ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov&#039;t Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By: Kruah Thompson The Government of Liberia has commended the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) for its more than six decad ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Liberia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-01T14:53:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-01T16:04:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gov&#8217;t Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-01T14:53:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-01T16:04:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense\"},\"wordCount\":194,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Liberia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense\",\"name\":\"Gov't Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense - Liberia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-01T14:53:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-01T16:04:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"By: Kruah Thompson The Government of Liberia has commended the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) for its more than six decad ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Gov't Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Gov&#8217;t Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/\",\"name\":\"Liberia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Gov't Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense - Liberia","description":"By: Kruah Thompson The Government of Liberia has commended the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) for its more than six decad ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Gov't Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense","og_description":"By: Kruah Thompson The Government of Liberia has commended the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) for its more than six decad ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense","og_site_name":"Liberia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2025-10-01T14:53:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-10-01T16:04:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Gov&#8217;t Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense","datePublished":"2025-10-01T14:53:21+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-01T16:04:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense"},"wordCount":194,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg","keywords":["Liberia"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense","name":"Gov't Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense - Liberia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg","datePublished":"2025-10-01T14:53:21+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-01T16:04:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"By: Kruah Thompson The Government of Liberia has commended the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) for its more than six decad ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2025\/10\/sm_1759321990.45589.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Gov't Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/govt-hails-pul-for-61-years-of-press-freedom-defense#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Gov&#8217;t Hails PUL for 61 Years of Press Freedom Defense"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/","name":"Liberia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}