John Emerson

Maziar Bahari and Joel Simon in a conversation with Jon Stewart at the School of Visual Arts in New York. The discussion, called “Censorship and power in Iran,” included a screening. A video of the panel discussion is available here.

Panel discussion, “Stamping Out Impunity,” at the Frontline Club in London.

For World Press Freedom Day, CPJ co-sponsored a full-day press freedom symposium at New York University. The event was free and open to the public. For details, please click here.

Launch of CPJ’s2013 Impunity Index featured at official World Press Freedom Day events in New York and San José, Costa Rica.

UNESCO’sofficial World Press Freedom Day celebration with 300 global participants included a CPJ panel on good practices for safety of journalists and impunity. We also hosted a side meeting, called “Research, Action, Results: Strategy Discussion for Combating Impunity,” with press freedom groups, journalists, and academics.

CPJ’sAsia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz will launched a special report on China in Hong Kong’sForeign Correspondents Club. The panel discussion was moderated by CPJ board member David Schlesinger.

CPJ Senior Program Coordinator for the Americas presented findings from Attacks on the Press at a seminar in Sao Paulo. The event was hosted by ABRAJI.

CPJ released Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World’sFrontlines, a yearly assessment of the state of press freedom worldwide. The 2013 edition features up-to-the-minute analyses by CPJ and global experts on media conditions, along with regional data, in close to 60 countries. An expanded print edition with exclusive essays by leading journalists is published…

CPJ’s Robert Mahoney identifies the 10 countries where press freedom suffered the most in 2012. They include Syria, the world’s deadliest country for the press; Russia, where repressive laws took effect; Brazil, where journalist murders soared; and Ethiopia, where terror laws are used to silence the press. (3:26)