Samantha Libby
Samantha Libby, CPJ’s digital manager, has worked in freedom of expression and human rights in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Kalimantan, and West Papua. She has also investigated the domestic and international arms trade. She is a playwright, artist, and an award-winning writer.
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, May 2015
US cites CPJ in remarks on World Press Freedom Day Each year, World Press Freedom Day provides an opportunity for press freedom organizations to put anti-press violations on the map. This year, CPJ did just that. In U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s statement commemorating World Press Freedom Day, he cited CPJ research: “This is…
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, March 2015
Press Uncuffed: Free the Press On March 26, CPJ partnered with students at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and Knight chair and Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest to launch the Press Uncuffed: Free the Press campaign at the Newseum in Washington. The campaign aimed to raise awareness about nine…
The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
From Egypt to Mexico, Russia to Syria, journalists are increasingly coming under attack. They are murdered, imprisoned and intimidated for doing their job. If this continues we will face a growing crisis in information – a shortage of the news that we need to make sense of our globalised world, and to fight human rights…
Press Freedom Panel Discussion: “Government Control Through the Internet”
The new information technologies have brought big advances to humanity and there has been generated an explosion of new revolutions through more empowered citizens. However, governments are also using the Internet to control, spy and generate cybernetic attacks. Panelists: Jane Kirtley, University of Minnesota professor; Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists…
Nobel Peace Prize Forum
This year’s programme will explore disarmament in its relation to conflict resolution, mediation and peacebuilding. Disarmament is a critical component of a peace that can be sustained. Sustainable peace also requires the involvement of multiple stakeholders, including women. One current, tragic example of the failure of disarmament and inclusive and sustainable peacebuilding is the Central…
Meeting of Community of Democracies Working Group on Freedom of Expression
Geneva, Switzerland UN Palais des Nations Wednesday 4th of March 2015 The Community of Democracies Working Group on Promoting Freedom of Opinion and Expression will convene at the 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva to discuss challenges and collaborative strategies to promote freedom of expression worldwide. CPJ is a member of the…
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, February 2015
First step toward better safety for freelancers News agencies, press freedom organizations, and advocacy groups came together this month to address mounting concerns over the hiring and safety of freelance journalists. While dangers to freelancers have always been present, last year international journalists made up nearly a quarter of journalists killed, about double the proportion…
FREELANCERS AT RISK: A call for global standards
Freelance journalism has never been more dangerous. At Columbia Journalism School in New York City, join an unprecedented coalition of leading news companies, freelance journalism organizations and press-freedom advocates responding to this crisis, by launching global safety principles and practices for international news organizations and the freelancers who work with them.