Profiles

Lova Rakotomalala is a U.S.-based Global Voices blogger and the co-founder of the Foko Blog Club, which trains Malagasy citizens in citizen journalism.

CPJ EU Correspondent Jean-Paul Marthoz is a Belgian journalist and longtime press freedom and human rights activist. He teaches international journalism at the Université catholique de Louvain and is a columnist for the Belgian daily Le Soir.

Musa Saidykhan was editor of the now-banned Gambian newspaper The Independent. He left the Gambia under threat and resettled in the United States.

Maria Salazar Ferro is director of CPJ’s Emergencies Department, overseeing the organization’s assistance and safety work worldwide. She is president of the board of the ACOS (A Culture of Safety) Alliance, a coalition aimed at improving protections for freelancers. She joined CPJ in 2005 and has served as coordinator for the Journalist Assistance Program and…