Andrew Levinson
Andrew Levinson served as CPJ's media officer from 2007 to 2010, promoting the organization's work on multiple platforms.
Video: CPJ announces funding from Thiel Foundation
On October 28 the SiliconValleyWatcher blog posted a short video featuring speeches from CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon and Board Chairman Paul Steiger announcing funding from the Thiel Foundation to aid freedom of the press online.Please click here to read the post and watch video of the speeches.
CPJ to honor five international journalists
New York, September 23, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor courageous journalists from Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Azerbaijan with its 2009 International Press Freedom Awards at a ceremony in November. Mustafa Haji Abdinur of Somalia, Naziha Réjiba of Tunisia, Eynulla Fatullayev of Azerbaijan, and J.S. Tissainayagam of Sri Lanka have faced imprisonment, threats…
Anthony Lewis, former New York Times columnist, author
Burton Benjamin Award Awards 2009 |Announcement of the Awards | Eynulla Fatullayev | J.S. Tissainayagam | Naziha Réjiba | Mustafa Haji Abdinur Tony Cenicola Anthony Lewis is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the foremost thinkers on freedom of speech and First Amendment rights. In a distinguished career at The New…
J.S. Tissainayagam, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times
Awards 2009 |Announcement of the Awards | Eynulla Fatullayev | Naziha Réjiba | Mustafa Haji Abdinur | Anthony Lewis On March 7, 2008, J.S. Tissainayagam, editor of the news Web site OutreachSL and a columnist for the English-language Sri Lankan Sunday Times, went to the offices of the government’s Terrorism Investigation Division to ask about…
Eynulla Fatullayev, Azerbaijan, Realny Azerbaijan
Awards 2009 |Announcement of the Awards | J.S. Tissainayagam | Néziha Réjiba | Mustafa Haji Abdinur | Anthony Lewis When Eynulla Fatullayev’s friend and colleague Elmar Huseynov was murdered in 2005, the journalist set out to find the killers. After his reporting raised the possibility of government complicity in the killing, Fatullayev found himself in…
Naziha Réjiba, Tunisia, Kalima
Awards 2009 |Announcement of the Awards | Eynulla Fatullayev | J.S. Tissainayagam | Mustafa Haji Abdinur | Anthony Lewis OLPEC Naziha Réjiba, one of Tunisia’s most critical journalists, is editor of the independent online news journal Kalima—which is blocked in her own country. Réjiba, also known as Um Ziad, has been the target of continual…
Mustafa Haji Abdinur, Somalia, Agence France-Presse
Awards 2009 |Announcement of the Awards | Eynulla Fatullayev | J.S. Tissainayagam | Naziha Réjiba | Anthony Lewis Mustafa Haji Abdinur is among the very small number of independent journalists still working amid devastating violence in Mogadishu. In 2009 alone, six Somali journalists were murdered or killed in crossfire. SIMBA As a correspondent for Agence…