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NYC’s New Year’s Celebration Will Be Dedicated To ‘Freedom Of The Press’

Emily Zanotti

This year’s Times Square New Year’s Eve bash will have a theme, according to New York City’s Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment commission: a celebration of the downtrodden, oppressed members of the mainstream media.

Every year, ABC News reports, the Times Square Alliance selects a charity honoree for the celebration, and this year that charity is media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists, which monitors attacks on the press across the globe.

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