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Self-Restraint vs. Self-Censorship
April 25, 2017 8:13 AM ET
How much should journalists hold back when covering terrorism in Europe? By Jean-Paul Marthoz European journalists are on edge. Since the brutal execution of eight colleagues at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, they have become acutely aware that they are in the firing line of...
French outlets Mediapart, Le Canard enchaîné receive threatening letters
April 7, 2017 6:06 PM ET
New York, April 7, 2017--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned threats made against the Paris-based investigative news website Mediapart and satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné (The Chained Duck), and called on French authorities to promptly bring the perpetrators to justice....
Press freedom on OGP agenda as authoritarianism rises
December 12, 2016 12:34 PM ET
There was poignancy to the Paris summit of the Open Government Partnership, as leaders from government and civil society took the stage to defend a political ideology under siege: liberal democracy. French President François Hollande, who amid weak public support announced he will not seek re-election in 2017, called...
Infographic: Islamic State's assault on the press
June 8, 2016 9:55 AM ET
When Mosul fell to Islamic State on June, 10, 2014, it sparked one of the biggest attacks on press freedom in recent times. Newspapers were shuttered, TV channels were ransacked, radio stations disappeared from the airwaves, and dozens of journalists vanished. Within days, the militants had a monopoly on information...
EU rulings on whistleblowers and right-to-be-forgotten laws puts press freedom at risk
April 14, 2016 3:43 PM ET
European journalists were reminded today that their freedom to report is not only determined by national laws, but increasingly by European institutions. Today, after years of political battle, the European Parliament adopted the Passenger Name Record directive, the Data Protection Package, and the Trade Secrets Protection Act. The stakes...
Journalists not welcome: Across Europe, press and migrants increasingly barred
March 7, 2016 1:01 PM ET
"The press is not allowed in refugee centers." The message from the Greek government could not have been clearer. "No permission will be given to television crews and reporters to enter such premises that hosts refugees," Yannis Mouzalas, the minister in charge of immigration policy, said in a February...
One year after Charlie Hebdo, will press freedom become victim of war on terror?
January 6, 2016 3:37 PM ET
Who would have thought that France would top the list of most deadly countries for the press in 2015, second only to Syria? The massacre of eight cartoonists and journalists by Islamic militants at the Paris office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last January was one of the...
From Charlie Hebdo in Paris to bloggers in Bangladesh, extremists target press
January 4, 2016 3:00 PM ET
Thursday marks one year since two gunmen burst into the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire. Over the following year, CPJ documented the deaths of 28 journalists who were killed for their work by Islamic militant groups such as Islamic State and Al-Qaeda. This StoryMap charts...
Syria, France most deadly countries for the press
December 29, 2015 12:01 AM ET
Of 69 journalists killed for their work in 2015, 40 percent died at the hands of Islamic militant groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State. More than two-thirds of the total killed were singled out for murder. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser...