Stephanie Sugars is CPJ’s North America research assistant. Her freelance work has been published in several international outlets, including Al Jazeera and Open Democracy. Sugars graduated from New York University with Masters degrees in journalism and international relations in May 2018.
Jacquelyn Iyamah joined CPJ in 2017 as its inaugural Patti Birch Gender and Media Freedom Fellow. Prior to this role, she worked at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, where she advocated for economic justice on a federal level. Before that, she was a political communication intern at the Ella Baker Center, where she advocated…
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….
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.
Jonathan Rozen is CPJ’s Deputy Director of Research and Analysis. He also serves as a Senior External Advisor with the International Justice Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and was a 2025-2026 Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. After joining CPJ in 2017, Jonathan spent nearly 10…
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.
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.