Profiles

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.

Solmaz Sharif has worked for more than 13 years as a journalist in the Middle East and has published articles in Persian, Turkish and American media. She is founder of the first Iranian women’s sports magazine, Shirzanan, and works for CyberDissidents.org. Her work can be found at www.solmazsharifdj.com.

Elena Milashina is an award-winning, investigative journalist with Novaya Gazeta and a Moscow correspondent for CPJ.

Alan Pearce is a journalist who has reported for outlets including Time, The Sunday Times, Sky News, and the BBC. He is the author of the ebook “Deep Web for Journalists: Comms, Counter-surveillance, Search,” supported by the International Federal of Journalists.

Joanna Chiu is a Hong Kong-based journalist.

Billie Sweeney is CPJ’s editorial director, responsible for all of the organization’s online and print publications. Sweeney is former New York City news editor for The Associated Press.

Zerihun Tesfaye is an Ethiopian journalist and human right activist living in exile. He has worked in exile as a correspondent for Deutsche Welle, Germany’s public news organization, and as an editor of Addis Neger Online. Zerihun has also worked as a political and economic commentator for the Ethiopian weekly Amharic-language newspapers Feteh, Addis Neger,…

Frank Smyth is CPJ’s senior adviser for journalist security. He has reported on armed conflicts, organized crime, and human rights from nations including El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Cuba, Rwanda, Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Jordan, and Iraq. Follow him on Twitter @JournoSecurity.