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Panic buttons, cameras, and a gun under the desk: Local newsrooms update security in wake of Capital Gazette attack
November 14, 2018 10:58 AM ET
The Capital Gazette shootings in Annapolis in June, in which a gunman killed five staff, forced many newsrooms across the U.S. to reassess the security of their offices. While journalists acknowledged that threats come with the job, the shooting comes in a year of increased hostility toward the press,...
Angela Quintal recounts CPJ's ordeal in Tanzania
November 13, 2018 3:22 PM ET
Johannesburg, November 13, 2018--"We drove down a dirt road and entered the premises of what appeared to be a safe house, through a large gate. Several men in plain clothes stood in the front yard. At least one appeared to be armed with a rifle. Their animosity was palpable......
Damascus journalist has a million stories but none she can safely report
November 12, 2018 4:08 PM ET
Joudy Boulos has a million stories she wants to write. But as a Syrian freelance journalist living in Damascus, her ability to report is severely limited by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It is so dangerous that "Joudy Boulos" is a pseudonym the journalist sometimes uses when...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of November 1, 2018
November 8, 2018 12:47 PM ET
Journalists in court An Istanbul court on November 5 convicted Yasir Kaya, a sports journalist formerly with Fenerbahçe TV or FBTV, of "being a member of a [terrorist] organization" and sentenced him to six years and three months in prison, according to reports. Kaya remained free pending appeal, according...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of October 26, 2018
November 1, 2018 12:37 PM ET
Journalist freed pending trial An Istanbul court on October 31, ordered Ali Sönmez Kayar, a reporter for the socialist Etkin News Agency (ETHA), to be freed pending trial, the independent news website Bianet reported. Kayar, who is charged with "being a member of a [terrorist] organization," was released under...
How the Saudis may have spied on Jamal Khashoggi
October 31, 2018 10:33 AM ET
Omar Abdulaziz, a 27-year-old Saudi Arabian dissident, can still remember the time Jamal Khashoggi, the storied Saudi journalist, unfollowed him on Twitter. It was in 2015, and Khashoggi had been tapped to head a new TV network called Al-Arab, a partnership between a member of the royal family and...
Saudi control of Arab media, lamented by Khashoggi, shapes coverage of his death
October 30, 2018 2:59 PM ET
It is a cruel irony that Jamal Khashoggi's last unpublished column for The Washington Post was a call for press freedom in the Arab world. His homeland, Saudi Arabia, has spent the last three decades and hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that never happens....
CPJ joins call for Brazilian presidential candidates to condemn threats against journalists
October 26, 2018 3:56 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined five other rights organizations to call on Brazilian presidential candidates to denounce the threats and violence against journalists covering the electoral campaign, and urge their supports to stop harassing reporters....
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of October 18
October 25, 2018 1:37 PM ET
Court sentences journalists over Özgür Gündem campaignAn Istanbul court on October 24 sentenced three journalists to jail for "insulting the president" in the now shuttered pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem, the daily Evrensel reported....
The path(s) to justice in Jamal Khashoggi's murder
October 23, 2018 3:41 PM ET
In an emotional address to Turkey's parliament today, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a savage and premeditated act and demanded that Saudi officials be brought to Turkey to stand trial. Most of the information about the investigation that has emerged has come...