Profiles

Nicole Schilit is CPJ’s Journalist Assistance Program Coordinator. She has a master’s in public administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a bachelor’s in documentary photography from Oberlin College in Ohio.

Dan Saxon is a former senior prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a former legal adviser to the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry for Syria. This piece reflects the author’s personal views.

CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour has worked to advocate for democracy and human rights in Egypt. He has a master’s in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s in education from Cairo’s Al-Azhar University.

Tim Crockett is a former U.K. Special Forces commando and the chief executive officer of Pioneer Consulting Group, a security training and consulting firm. He is a security adviser to CNN, and accompanied a three-person CNN crew led by international correspondent Arwa Damon to Homs, Syria, last March.

Nicole Schilit is CPJ’s Journalist Assistance Program Coordinator. She has a master’s in public administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a bachelor’s in documentary photography from Oberlin College in Ohio.

Kate Skinner is a broadcasting researcher and policy analyst. She is a working member of the SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition.

Mauri König, a Brazilian investigative reporter, has worked with Gazeta do Povo since 2002. He previously worked for the newspapers O Estado de São Paulo, Gazeta Mercantil, Folha de Londrina, and O Estado do Paraná. He is a board member at the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalists (ABRAJI), a CPJ partner. König is a 2012…

Rebecca Wexler is an independent documentary filmmaker, visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and co-founder of the Yale Visual Law Project. She holds a bachelor’s in history of science from Harvard College and a master’s in philosophy in history of science and technology from Cambridge University, where she was a Gates…

Daniel Bilotta is a journalist and professor of communications at the National University of Lomas de Zamora.

Joel Simon was the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists from 2006 to 2021. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, World Policy Journal, Asahi Shimbun, and The Times of India. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. His…