Profiles

Josh Stearns is the Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director of Free Press and a board director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, an advocacy group whose other directors include the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras and the actor John Cusack.

Sandra Mims Rowe was elected chairman of CPJ in 2011, having joined CPJ’s board of directors in 2003. Rowe was editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, from 1993 until January 2010. Under her leadership, the newspaper won five Pulitzer Prizes, including the Gold Medal for Public Service. She was the Knight Shorenstein Fellow at…

Elizabeth Dickinson is author of the Kindle Single Who Shot Ahmed? A mystery unravels in Bahrain’s botched Arab Spring.

Samantha Libby, CPJ’s digital manager, has worked in freedom of expression and human rights in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Kalimantan, and West Papua. She has also investigated the domestic and international arms trade. She is a playwright, artist, and an award-winning writer.

Mhamed Krichen is a Doha-based anchor and program host for Al-Jazeera.

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…

Shazdeh Omari is CPJ’s news editor. Former copy chief for The Village Voice, she has worked as a reporter and editor in the United States and Greece. Omari was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, where she learned to read, speak, and write Urdu.

Mark Basil’s security career spans nearly 20 years. He served in the U.S. Secret Service, working on anti-terrorism assignments and coordinating covert protection for world leaders. He performed security surveys and vulnerability assessments for those under Secret Service protection. He is now a certified protection professional. He teaches and trains others in security, and provides…

Adel Iskandar teaches at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown University. He is author of the recently published Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution (American University in Cairo, 2013), the co-editor with Bassam Haddad of Mediating the Arab Uprisings (Tadween Press, 2012), and co-author…

Tanja Milevska is CPJ’s Europe correspondent. Milevska is a Belgo-Macedonian freelance journalist who formerly worked for A1 TV. She is based in Brussels, Belgium.