Profiles

MENA correspondent

David C. Adams is a CPJ’s Caribbean correspondent based in Miami where he works as a freelance journalist for several media outlets. He has covered Latin America and the Caribbean for the last 36 years and was previously a senior editor at Univision News and Miami bureau chief for Thomson Reuters. Follow him on LinkedIn.

Moussa Ngom joined the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2023 as a correspondent covering French-speaking Africa. He was named Francophone Africa Representative in January 2025. Since 2019, Ngom has coordinated the independent, award-winning, and publicly funded investigative media network La Maison Des Reporters. He is also a fact-checking trainer at the Dakar-based university journalism school,…

Kathy Jones is the deputy editorial director at the Committee to Protect Journalists. For more than two decades, she has helped shape and tell stories with data, reporting and visuals for news organizations including Reuters, Bloomberg, and Newsweek.

Mohamed Mandour joined CPJ as a Middle East and North Africa researcher in 2023. He holds a master’s degree in human rights with a minor in law and a concentration in national security and accountability from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School. Mandour previously worked as a Bassem Sabry research fellow at the Tahrir Institute…

Waliullah Rahmani is an Asia researcher at CPJ. From 2016 to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021, he was founder and director of Khabarnama Media, one of the first digital media organizations in Afghanistan.

Beh Lih Yi is CPJ’s Asia-Pacific Director. She has more than 20 years of experience reporting on human rights and social justice across Asia for Agence France-Presse, Thomson Reuters Foundation, independent Malaysian news website Malaysiakini, and other outlets. Follow her on LinkedIn.

Evelyn Okakwu joined the Committee to Protect Journalists as a Nigeria consultant in August 2019. She was appointed CPJ’s West Africa correspondent in January 2021. Okakwu previously worked for four years as a judiciary correspondent for the Premium Times online newspaper and for two years as a general assignment reporter with the Peoples Daily newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital….

Anna Brakha joined CPJ as a Europe and Central Asia researcher in 2022. Prior to CPJ, she worked in different structures at the crossroads of media and international relations. She holds a master’s degree in international relations and post-Soviet studies from INALCO University and a Master of Science of Management and Media and Digital industries…