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CPJ joins call to end impunity in killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
October 16, 2019 11:34 AM ET
Two years after the assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and one year after CPJ joined five other organizations in an international press freedom mission to Malta, CPJ and nine other groups once again demanded an end to impunity for the heinous attack and renewed calls to...
Forced out of jobs and sidelined, Bolivia’s independent journalists see their audience slipping away
October 10, 2019 4:15 PM ET
Amalia Pando was once a ubiquitous presence on Bolivian radio and TV, hosting some of the country’s most popular news and political commentary programs. At age 66, she’s still at it, but her audience is a sliver of what it once was....
‘I was the first to lose my freedom’: How police protection impacts Italy’s investigative reporters
October 10, 2019 11:51 AM ET
Explaining the sudden presence of two grim-looking bodyguards in a way that wouldn’t scare her children was never going to be easy for Federica Angeli, a reporter for la Repubblica. So when Angeli returned home with police protection for the first time in July 2013, she tried to turn...
CPJ joins statement of concern over safety of Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell
October 7, 2019 2:40 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP), a Colombian press freedom organization, in issuing a statement on October 4 expressing concern for the safety of journalist Daniel Coronell....
CPJ asks DC District Court to force release of intelligence community Khashoggi files
September 27, 2019 10:40 AM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday asking the court to release documents regarding Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, which the U.S. government claimed in court documents are exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests....
Kashmir’s news media faces existential crisis amid restrictions, arrests
September 24, 2019 12:54 PM ET
On August 5, the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a strict communication blackout in Jammu and Kashmir after stripping the state of its limited autonomous status under the Indian constitution. A month later as the restrictions continued, CPJ India Correspondent Kunal Majumder traveled to Srinagar, Kashmir’s...
CPJ joins call to UN rights council for end to press crackdown in Turkey
September 20, 2019 1:40 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 12 other press freedom and freedom of expression organizations calling on the member states of the U.N. Human Rights Council to urge Turkey to end its repressive policies against independent reporting and free speech....
CPJ joins call for new Council of Europe head to prioritize press freedom
September 19, 2019 3:09 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 21 other press freedom and freedom of expression organizations in sending an open letter to Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejcinovic Buric yesterday, calling on her to prioritize press freedom and the safety of journalists among the council’s 47 member...
Q&A: OONI Explorer team unlock the web’s untold censorship stories
September 17, 2019 1:04 PM ET
The internet is not one network, but thousands of interconnected networks. How can anyone know how they are controlled without inspecting them all? In 2012, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) set out to do just that. A program run by the Seattle-headquartered Tor Project, OONI created OONI...