Profiles

  

Mohamed Keita/CPJ Africa Program Coordinator

Mohamed Keita is advocacy coordinator for CPJ’s Africa Program. Keita has written about independent journalism and development in sub-Saharan Africa for publications including The New York Times and Africa Review, and has appeared on NPR, the BBC, Al-Jazeera, and Radio France Internationale. Keita has also given presentations on press freedom at the World Bank, U.S….

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Jason McLure/Guest blogger

Jason McLure was Bloomberg News correspondent in Ethiopia from 2007 to 2010.

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Bob Dietz/Asia Program Coordinator and Danny O’Brien/Internet Advocacy Coordinator

Bob Dietz, coordinator of CPJ’s Asia Program, has reported across the continent for news outlets such as CNN and Asiaweek. He has led numerous CPJ missions, including ones to Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Follow him on Twitter @cpjasia and Facebook @ CPJ Asia Desk.

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Kristin Jones/CPJ Consultant

Kristin Jones, a consultant to CPJ’s Asia program, is an independent investigative reporter. In 2011, she was part of a team that won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes,” a collaboration between NPR and the Center for Public Integrity. Jones was CPJ’s senior Asia research associate until 2007. She…

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Darian Pavli/CPJ Guest Blogger

Darian Pavli is a senior lawyer at the Open Society Justice Initiative. He focuses on freedom of information and expression issues in Africa, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe.

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Mannika Chopra/CPJ India Consultant

Mannika Chopra is a New Delhi-based media columnist and contributor to The Tribune, Hindustan and The Statesman. She is also involved in setting up women media collectives and mentors international journalism students visiting India.

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Mesfin Negash/CPJ Guest Blogger

Mesfin Negash was the managing editor of leading weekly Addis Neger until 2009, when the staff ceased publication and fled Ethiopia under threat of arrest after the paper was accused of anti-state coverage. He now edits Addis Neger Online from exile. In November 2011, Mesfin and other Ethiopian journalists were charged with supporting a terrorist…

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Aminata Le Bas with Mohamed Keita/CPJ Africa Program

Aminata Le Bas, an intern in CPJ’s Africa program, is a Master’s Candidate in International Relations at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) of Aix-en-Provence in France. Aminata has lived in Burkina Faso as well as France and speaks French, German and English.

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Kristin Jones/CPJ Guest Blogger

Kristin Jones, a consultant to CPJ’s Asia program, is an independent investigative reporter. In 2011, she was part of a team that won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes,” a collaboration between NPR and the Center for Public Integrity. Jones was CPJ’s senior Asia research associate until 2007. She…

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Gypsy Guillén Kaiser/CPJ Chief Global Affairs Officer

Gypsy Guillén Kaiser is CPJ’s chief global affairs officer. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York, she began her career as a journalist after graduating from New York University.

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