Profiles

  

Can Dündar, co-founder, editor-in-chief, Özgürüz

Can Dündar is editor-in-chief of Özgürüz (“We are free”), which he co-founded after going into exile in 2016. As editor-in-chief of the Turkish opposition daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, he spent 92 days in pretrial detention on charges related to the newspaper’s publication in 2015 of an article alleging Turkey’s intelligence agency was arming Syrian rebels under…

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Marwa Morgan/CPJ 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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Natalie Southwick/CPJ Americas Research Associate

Natalie Southwick is CPJ’s Americas research associate. Prior to joining CPJ, she was a member of Witness for Peace’s international accompaniment team in Bogotá, Colombia, a reporting specialist with ACDI/VOCA’s Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Program, and the editor of a website focused on Latin American news. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Chicago…

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Ignacio Miguel Delgado Culebras/CPJ Middle East and North Africa Correspondent

Ignacio Miguel Delgado Culebras has worked as a freelance journalist throughout the Middle East, writing on civil society, democratization, and human rights issues. He served as a media analyst for the Open Source Center’s Europe bureau for nine years and worked as a researcher, editor, and election monitor for the Cairo-based Ibn Khaldun Center for…

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Jesse Gardner

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Özgür Öğret

Özgür Öğret is a Turkish freelance journalist and CPJ’s Turkey representative. He was lead researcher for the 2012 CPJ special report, “Turkey’s Press Freedom Crisis.”

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Alexandra Ellerbeck/Senior CPJ Americas and U.S. Research Associate

Alexandra Ellerbeck, CPJ’s North America program coordinator, previously worked at Freedom House and was a Fulbright teaching fellow at the State University of Pará in Brazil. She has lived in Chile, Bolivia and Brazil.

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Sara Rafsky/CPJ Guest Blogger

Sara Rafsky, former research associate in CPJ’s Americas program, is a freelance journalist and M.S. candidate in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was previously researcher on Central America at Amnesty International in Mexico City.

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Joel Simon/CPJ Executive Director and Alexandra Ellerbeck/Senior US Research Associate

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Marwa Morgan/CPJ Middle East and North Africa 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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