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.
Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a Cuban freelance journalist and economist, was arrested in the 2003 Black Spring Crackdown and imprisoned for over a year. His wife, Miriam Leiva, a Cuban freelance journalist, fought for his release as part of the movement known as the Ladies in White.
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…
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.
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.
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.