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Journalist in Hong Kong? These tips will keep you safer and help you do your best job

October 2, 2014 1:14 PM ET

We have been receiving reports of harassment and the use of force directed toward journalists covering the demonstrations in Hong Kong. Most of the incidents came over the weekend with the government's ill-advised attempt to end the protests with...

Amid Hong Kong protests, journalists battle misperceptions of press freedom

September 30, 2014 12:58 PM ET

EDITOR'S NOTE: As pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong intensify ahead of China's National Day on Wednesday, some reporters have been caught in the melee. But for Hong Kong's journalists, there is more at stake than run-ins with the riot...

Congo expels critical female journalist

September 25, 2014 3:28 PM ET

Abuja, Nigeria, September 25, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Congolese authorities' decision to expel a freelance journalist from the country and calls on them to allow her to enter the country and report freely. Before her expulsion, Sadio Kante...

Governor 'cloned' Cancún magazine to create fake covers with positive stories

September 25, 2014 11:00 AM ET

The Cancún-based investigative magazine Luces del Siglo has won a court decision ordering the Quintana Roo state government to stop "cloning" the covers of its weekly editions and spreading the fake versions via social networks, according to news reports....

Who is killing Central America's journalists?

September 24, 2014 10:00 AM ET

Widespread violence and impunity leave murders unsolved Amid the violence and instability caused by organized crime and corruption in Central America, Honduras and Guatemala have experienced an alarming rise in the number of murders of, and attacks against, journalists. Near...

Journalists killed while covering Ebola education campaign in Guinea

September 22, 2014 5:10 PM ET

Abuja, Nigeria, September 22, 2014--A journalist and two media workers were killed on September 16 while covering an Ebola education campaign in Guinea's south-eastern forested region, according to news reports and local journalists....

Journalists investigating deaths of Russian soldiers are threatened and attacked

September 22, 2014 11:13 AM ET

Journalists investigating the deaths of Russian soldiers that news reports claimed were killed during Russia's alleged involvement in Ukraine's conflict have been targeted in a series of attacks since late August, according to a press freedom group. Russia has denied...

Armed men attack journalist in Brazzaville, Congo

September 12, 2014 5:35 PM ET

Abuja, Nigeria, September 12, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Congo to apprehend the perpetrators of an attack on Wednesday against a journalist in his home in Brazzaville. Elie Smith was threatened and held at gunpoint...

Ukrainian authorities raid newsroom, bar entry to Russian journalists

September 11, 2014 5:36 PM ET

New York, September 11, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's raid by Ukrainian security agents on the independent newspaper Vesti as well as moves by Ukrainian authorities to bar entry to dozens of Russian journalists and media workers....

In attempts to contain Ebola, Liberia censors its press

September 11, 2014 12:49 PM ET

With the Ebola epidemic predicted to get worse, the Liberian government has taken action to silence news outlets critical of its handling of the health crisis which, according to Liberia's Information Ministry, has claimed more than 1,000 lives in...