Ashley Parent
Call for justice in cases of murdered Vietnamese-American journalists
New York, May 27, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists will call for the cases of five Vietnamese-American journalists who were killed between 1981 and 1990 to be reopened, based on information uncovered by ProPublica and Frontline. The suspected assassinations were the subject of CPJ’s 1994 report, “Silenced, The Unsolved Murders of Immigrant Journalists in the…
World Press Freedom Day
UNESCO and the Government of Finland will co-host the World Press Freedom Day’s main event and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize Ceremony in 2016 which will take place in Helsinki, Finland, from May 2-4, 2016. The event will include the Opening Ceremony, Plenary Sessions, Parallel Roundtable Sessions, and the Award Ceremony of the…
Difference Day
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Erasmushogeschool Brussel, BOZAR, Evens Foundation & iMinds, together with other partners (WAN, EBU, ACT, MPAA, European Commission, UNESCO, European Parliament) along with the Committee to Protect Journalists celebrate Difference Day by honouring people and organisations that make a…
Book launch for CPJ’s annual edition of Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide
Join the Committee to Protect Journalists for the launch of its annual publication, Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide. Events will be hosted in Washington, D.C., New York City, and online. At the Newseum in Washington, D.C, CPJ will host a panel, Attacks on the Press: Women on the Frontlines, which will…
Media and Democracy in Brazil: Under Challenge
Join a discussion about the increasing challenges Brazil’s media face, especially at a time of political and economic turbulence in the nation’s modern democracy, including legislative and judicial actions and continued violence against journalists. Experts will discuss the relationships between the media, the public and government, assess the state of free speech in Brazil and…
17th International Symposium on Online Journalism
Since 1999, editors, producers, executives, and academics from around the world have gathered in Austin to discuss the evolution of this new genre of journalism. The Symposium has been a small, but very intense conference that serves as a barometer for the state of Online Journalism. CPJ’s Executive Director, Joel Simon, will participate in a…
National High School Journalism Conference
CPJ advocacy director Courtney Radsch will speak at the National High School Journalism Conference, in Los Angeles on April 15, 2016. The National High School Journalism Convention is a semiannual gathering of high school journalists and advisers co-sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association.. Courtney will discuss journalist safety in…
The death blow to Turkey’s media
Turkey, once seen as a role model for the Middle East, is now hitting the headlines around the world with its systematic government crackdown on the free press. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s relentless assaults on the independent media has blown up with a final deadly strike to Turkey’s largest newspaper, Zaman, and its sister organization,…
International Journalism Festival
The tenth edition of the International Journalism Festival will take place in Perugia Italy from 06 to 10 April 2016. All festival sessions will be free entry for all attendees, without any need for registration. Jean-Paul Marthoz, CPJ’s EU Correspondent, will be speaking at the festival.