Magnus Ag
Assistant Advocacy Director Magnus Ag is a New York-based human rights advocate and journalist. Prior to joining CPJ in 2010, Ag worked as head of section in the Danish Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in political science from the University of Copenhagen. He speaks English, Danish, and Norwegian. Contact him here or follow him on Twitter @AgMagnus.
The war against journalists in the Middle East
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…
Journalists speak out on sexual attacks
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
Q&A: Joel Simon on CPJ’s Impunity Index
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…
Press watchdog: State complicit in murder
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…
CPJ launches 2011 Impunity Index
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…
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CPJ Impact
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, May 2011 Pakistan pledges justicePakistan’s president committed to pursue justice for journalists killed in the line of duty, pledging to take steps to reverse the country’s rising record of impunity. A delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists, headed by outgoing Chairman Paul Steiger, met with President Asif Ali Zardari on World…