| The issue about freedom of information and the legal protection of freedom of information has always been one of the hot spot of the academic circles in our country. Freedom of information is not only the reflection of freedom of the speech and freedom of the press in the activity of the press, but also has small differences of freedom of speech and freedom of publication in concept. Therefore, on the basis of the representative of the past several interpretation of the concept of freedom of information, further annotate the concept of freedom of information in the first chapter.Freedom of information is not only an important symbol of contemporary democratic politics, but also an essential part of the constitutional concept, which is the significance of the protection of freedom of information. The second chapter explains the significance of freedom of information mainly from freedom of information and the protection of human rights, freedom of information and the promotion of democracy, freedom of information and the constitutionalism construction three areas.Currently, the legal protection of freedom of information is the system of the approval in our country, and it has a certain legal system of the press, but there are still some problems in practice, such as legislative stagnant, the operating mechanism of "plan more, market less", deficiency of information resources, dislocation of media and offside judicature, and unclear boundaries with other rights, the third and the fourth chapters mainly revolved round these issues put forward the proposal of consummating the legal protection of freedom of information, on the basis of analysis and reference to the foreign experience of the legal protection of freedom of information. |