Billie Sweeney/Editorial Director
Billie Sweeney is CPJ’s editorial director, responsible for all of the organization’s online and print publications. Sweeney is former New York City news editor for The Associated Press.
![Natalya Estemirova (AP)](https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Estemirova.Russia.ap_.2009.jpg?w=150&h=217&crop=1)
A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action
We’ve launched a new section of our Web site, and we hope you take a few minutes to read some of its pages. There is one, for example, on Russian reporter Natalya Estemirova, who dared to examine human rights crimes in Chechnya. Another is devoted to Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco, a Tijuana newspaper editor who…