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Deutsche Welle spoke with CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon about the changing face of journalism in the internet age. The Q&A was published on June 20. Click here for the full story

BBC’s correspondent Karen Allen reports from a workshop held in Johannesburg, South Africa, co-organized by Global Voices, Google Africa, and CPJ. CPJ’s Danny O’Brein and Tom Rhodes are quoted in the article. Click here for the full story

On June 14, Foreign Policy ran a piece by CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Mohamed Abdel Dayem. Taking a starting point in the case of missing freelance journalist Matthew VanDyke, Abdel Dayem analyzes the trends in press freedom violations in Libya and across the Middle East. Click here for the full story…

The Washington Post quoted CPJ Washington Representative Frank Smyth as part of the newspaper’s coverage of the conviction in the Chauncey Bailey murder case. The article was published on June 10. Click here for the full story

On June 7, CPJ Senior Editor Lauren Wolfe appeared on CNN International to talk about CPJ’s special report The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists released the same day.

CNN.com ran an op-ed by CPJ Deputy Editor Lauren Wolfe on sexual violence against journalists. The op-ed was published on June 7, the same day CPJ released the special report The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists authored by Wolfe.  Click here for the full story

Columbia Journalism Review published a Q&A with CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon on June 3 about CPJ’s 2011 Impunity Index. Among others questions, Simon answers the question: “It’s pretty startling to read in this report that 40 percent of journalists who were murdered in the listed countries in the last decade had received threats before…

The Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star interviewed CPJ Impunity Campaign and Journalists Assistance Program Coordinator Maria Salazar-Ferro about CPJ’s 2011 Impunity Index. In the interview Salazar-Ferro talks about global trends in the murders of journalists as well as Lebanese cases. The interview was published in print and online on June 2. Click here for the full…

On June 1, CPJ published its 2011 Impunity Index spotlighting countries where journalists are slain and killers go free. The index’s findings were covered by a wide variety of news organizations. Some highlights include stories on AFP, AP, Associated Press of Pakistan, EFE (in Spanish) and Reuters. The index, which ranks Iraq, Somalia and the Philippines at the top of the…