Profiles

  

Steven Butler

Steven Butler is a senior program consultant for CPJ. He previously served as CPJ’s Asia program coordinator, lived, and worked in Asia as a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years and was a foreign editor at the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau. He holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University.

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Siamak Ghaderi /CPJ Middle East and North Africa Advisory Group Member

Siamak Ghaderi is an Iranian freelance journalist and recipient of CPJ’s 2014 International Press Freedom Award. He is a member of CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa advisory group.

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Angela Quintal/CPJ Africa Director

Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa director, worked as a journalist for more than two decades in South Africa, including as editor of the Mail and Guardian. She is a former secretary-general of the SA National Editors’ Forum, edited The Witness and The Mercury, and was presidential correspondent during Nelson Mandela’s term as South Africa’s first democratically…

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Geoffrey King/CPJ Technology Program Coordinator

San Francisco-based CPJ Technology Program Coordinator Geoffrey King works to protect the digital rights of journalists worldwide. A constitutional lawyer by training, King also teaches courses on digital privacy law, as well as the intersection of media and social change, both at UC Berkeley. Follow him on Twitter at @CPJTechnology. His public key fingerprint is…

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Ann Cooper

Ann Cooper is Professor Emerita, Columbia Journalism School and a former executive director of CPJ. Before joining CPJ she was a foreign correspondent for NPR, including serving as Moscow bureau chief from 1987 to 1991.

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Mustafa Hameed

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CPJ Asia Program Staff

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Alex Truong

Alex Truong is the nephew of imprisoned Vietnamese blogger Tran Huynh Duy Thuc. He and other family members have actively advocated for Thuc’s unconditional freedom. Truong’s passport was confiscated and he was banned from traveling abroad after conducting an advocacy mission for his uncle’s release to Sweden, Nepal, and the Netherlands in 2014.

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Mehdi Rahmati

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Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ Mexico Representative

Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative for the Americas program, works as a correspondent for Dutch newspaper Trouw, and regularly contributes to publications including Newsweek and RTL Nieuws. He is based in Mexico City.

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