Profiles

  

Mickey H. Osterreicher/CPJ Guest Blogger

Mickey H. Osterreicher, an attorney with the law firm of Hiscock & Barclay, serves as the general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). He has almost 40 years of experience as a print and broadcast photojournalist and has been involved in right-to-record cases throughout the country. He recently provided training in police-press relations…

Read More ›

Lauren Wolfe/CPJ Guest Blogger

Lauren Wolfe is the director of Women Under Siege, a project on sexualized violence and conflict at the Women’s Media Center. While CPJ’s senior editor, she wrote the CPJ report, “The Silencing Crime: Sexual Violence and Journalists.” Previously, she was a researcher on two New York Times books on the 9/11 attacks.

Read More ›

Sheila S. Coronel/CPJ Board Member

Sheila Coronel, a CPJ board member, is the Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her reporting career in her native Philippines in 1982. Coronel is the author and editor of more than a dozen books.

Read More ›

Lucía Escobar/CPJ Guest Blogger

Lucía Escobar is a Guatemalan freelance journalist who was forced to relocate inside her country after repeated threats in 2011. You can read more about her ordeal here.

Read More ›

Sophie Beach/CPJ Guest Blogger

Sophie Beach is the executive editor of China Digital Times. She is a former senior Asia research associate at the Committee to Protect Journalists and received her master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She is based in Berkeley, Calif.

Read More ›

Eva Galperin/CPJ Guest Blogger

Eva Galperin is international freedom of expression coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Read More ›

Shehnilla Mohamed/CPJ Africa Program

Shehnilla Mohamed, a freelance journalist based in Johannesburg, is CPJ’s southern Africa correspondent.

Read More ›

Peter Nkanga/CPJ West Africa Consultant

Peter Nkanga, an independent bilingual investigative journalist based in Abuja, Nigeria, is CPJ’s West Africa representative. Peter specializes in human rights and advocacy reporting.

Read More ›

Nicole Schilit/CPJ Guest Blogger

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.

Read More ›

Katrin Verclas and Alix Dunn/CPJ Guest Bloggers

Katrin Verclas directs SaferMobile.org. Alix Dunn is a contributor to SaferMobile and co-founder of theengineroom.org, an organization that investigates and supports wired social movements.

Read More ›