Profiles

Naomi Zeveloff joined CPJ as features editor in July 2020 and was named senior editor for features and analysis in 2023. From 2014 to 2020 she reported from Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, producing stories on Israeli settler youth, Trump’s Middle East policy, and solar panel use in Gaza for outlets such as NPR,…

Mat Nashed is a journalist and analyst covering the Middle East and North Africa. He focuses on human rights and geopolitics and has published in international outlets such as Al-Jazeera, VICE, OZY, and The New Humanitarian.

Christopher Miller is a correspondent who has reported from Eastern Europe for more than 10 years. His work has appeared in BuzzFeed News, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Politico, The Guardian, Vice News, The Atlantic, The Times and The Telegraph, and CNN. He is the author of CPJ’s 2017 report “Justice Denied: Ukraine comes up empty in probe…

Jean-Paul Marthoz is a columnist for the Brussels newspaper Le Soir and the author of books on journalism and foreign affairs. He was CPJ’s EU correspondent until 2016.

Frank Smyth heads the advisory board for CPJ’s Emergencies team. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and the Member States of the Organization of American States, the U.N. Human Rights Council, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He is the founder and CEO of GJS (Global Journalist Security), a leading hostile…

Elena Rodina, a native of Kazan, Russia, worked as a Moscow-based sociopolitical correspondent for Ogoniok, one of the oldest weekly Russian magazines, and Esquire Russia. Her journalism and research have been published in Caucasus Survey, Digital Ethics, Time Out Chicago, Newcity, Media and Communication, and Zeitschrift fur Slavische Philologie, among other outlets. Rodina holds a…