Rachael Levy/CPJ Google Journalism Fellow
Rachael Levy, CPJ’s Google Journalism Fellow, is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, GlobalPost, the Atlantic, Slate, and others. She is pursuing her master’s degree in multimedia and business reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Zone 9 blogger urges world to call for freedom in Ethiopia
In April, the Ethiopian government imprisoned nine journalists, including six bloggers from Zone 9, in one of the worst crackdowns against free expression in the country. Ethiopia is the second worst jailer of journalists in Africa, trailing only Eritrea, according to CPJ research.