Samantha Libby
Samantha Libby, CPJ’s digital manager, has worked in freedom of expression and human rights in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Kalimantan, and West Papua. She has also investigated the domestic and international arms trade. She is a playwright, artist, and an award-winning writer.
Kidnapped journalist in Syria is freed
Marc Marginedas, a Spanish journalist kidnapped by militants on September 4, 2013, crossed the border into Turkey on March 2, 2014, the Associated Press reported. The story references CPJ data, specifically the estimated thirty journalists still missing in Syria. Read the full story here.
Pakistan court convicts five of reporter’s murder in landmark case
A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted six defendants for their roles in the murder of Wali Khan Babar, a Geo TV journalist who was shot dead in Karachi in January 2011, according to news reports. Reuters cited CPJ’s data, which says that 46 journalists and media workers have been killed in Pakistan for their work since 2007. Babar’s…
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, February 2014
CPJ releases annual publication Attacks on the Press CPJ launched the 2014 edition of its flagship publication, Attacks on the Press, on February 12, which was widely covered by local and international media outlets, including The Guardian, Reuters, and the Turkish paper Today’s Zaman. The annual assessment of global press freedom found that digital surveillance,…
Hong Kong journalist slashed amid concerns of eroding media freedoms
Kevin Lau, who was recently dismissed as editor from Ming Pao, a Hong Kong daily newspaper, was attacked with a meat cleaver leaving him in critical condition. The attack comes on the heels of a decline in the press freedom environment in Hong Kong, as profiled in CPJ’s Attacks on the Press essay. Read the…
Is Egypt cracking cown on freedom of press?
Reporters in Egypt are facing terrorism charges, but they say they were just doing their job. NPR host Michel Martin speaks with Sherif Mansour of the Committee to Protect Journalists and NPR’s Leila Fadel about press freedom in Egypt, and other parts of the world. Listen to the full interview here.
Press freedom groups urge David Cameron to lay off The Guardian
The Committee to Protect Journalists, along with six other members of the Global Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, sent a letter to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. The letter calls on the prime minister to do two things: distance himself from the investigation into the Guardian, and urge Parliament to repeal the statute that…