Profiles

  

Joel Simon/CPJ Executive Director and Alexandra Ellerbeck/CPJ North America Program Coordinator

Joel Simon was the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists from 2006 to 2021. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, World Policy Journal, Asahi Shimbun, and The Times of India. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom….

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Avi Asher-Schapiro/CPJ US Correspondent

Avi Asher-Schapiro is CPJ’s Global Tech Senior Correspondent. He is a former staffer at VICE News, International Business Times, and Tribune Media, and an independent investigative reporter who has published in outlets including The Atlantic, The Intercept, and The New York Times.

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Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Africa Research Associate

Jonathan Rozen is CPJ’s senior Africa researcher. Previously, he worked in South Africa, Mozambique, and Canada with the Institute for Security Studies, assessing Mozambican peace-building processes. Rozen was a U.N. correspondent for IPS News and has written for Al-Jazeera English and the International Peace Institute. He speaks English and French.

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Muthoki Mumo/CPJ East Africa Correspondent and Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Africa

Muthoki Mumo is CPJ’s sub-Saharan Africa representative. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and has a master’s in journalism and globalization from the University of Hamburg.

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Attila Mong/CPJ Europe Representative

Attila Mong is a freelance journalist and CPJ’s Berlin-based Europe representative. He is a former John S. Knight Journalism Fellow and a Hoover Institution research fellow, both at Stanford University. In Hungary, he was awarded the Pulitzer Memorial Prize for Best Investigative Journalism in 2004 and the Soma Investigative Journalism Prize in 2003.

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Tom Gibson

Tom Gibson is CPJ’s lead advocate in Brussels, covering the EU. Before joining CPJ, Gibson managed Protection International’s Burundi and Congo desks, advocating for stronger state accountability for the protection of human rights defenders and journalists. Gibson was also part of Amnesty International’s Africa program in London and Nairobi.

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Beatrice Santa Wood

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Iris Hsu

Iris Hsu is CPJ’s China representative. Prior to joining CPJ, Hsu interned at Human Rights Watch, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, and the Atlantic Council. Hsu obtained her master’s degree in international affairs from American University. She speaks Mandarin and French and lives in Taipei. Follow her on LinkedIn.

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Christopher Miller/CPJ Correspondent for Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus

Christopher Miller is CPJ’s correspondent for Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. Miller, the author of CPJ’s 2017 report “Justice Denied: Ukraine comes up empty in probe of Pavel Sheremet’s murder,” is also the Ukraine correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and has written about conflict, corruption, and politics in the region for outlets including Mashable, CNN,…

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Marwa Morgan/Middle East and North Africa Program Intern

Marwa Morgan is CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program intern. She previously worked as a reporter and photojournalist for Ahram Online and Daily News Egypt. Her freelance work was published in several international outlets, including The Guardian and NPR. She holds a Master of Science in journalism from Boston University.

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