Dana Bullen

Dana R. Bullen
Born	August 6, 1931 Boston
Died	June 25, 2007
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Florida
Known for	Being the executive director of the World Press Freedom Committee

Dana Ripley Bullen II (b. Boston, August 6, 1931 - d. Alexandria, Virginia, June 25, 2007) 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.

External links

• NY Times obit
• Mywire.com notice of Bullen's death

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Name	Bullen, Dana
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Date of birth	August 6, 1931
Place of birth	Boston
Date of death	June 25, 2007
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