Book launch for CPJ’s annual edition of Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide
Join the Committee to Protect Journalists for the launch of its annual publication, Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide. Events will be hosted in Washington, D.C., New York City, and online. At the Newseum in Washington, D.C, CPJ will host a panel, Attacks on the Press: Women on the Frontlines, which will…
Media and Democracy in Brazil: Under Challenge
Join a discussion about the increasing challenges Brazil’s media face, especially at a time of political and economic turbulence in the nation’s modern democracy, including legislative and judicial actions and continued violence against journalists. Experts will discuss the relationships between the media, the public and government, assess the state of free speech in Brazil and…
17th International Symposium on Online Journalism
Since 1999, editors, producers, executives, and academics from around the world have gathered in Austin to discuss the evolution of this new genre of journalism. The Symposium has been a small, but very intense conference that serves as a barometer for the state of Online Journalism. CPJ’s Executive Director, Joel Simon, will participate in a…
National High School Journalism Conference
CPJ advocacy director Courtney Radsch will speak at the National High School Journalism Conference, in Los Angeles on April 15, 2016. The National High School Journalism Convention is a semiannual gathering of high school journalists and advisers co-sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association.. Courtney will discuss journalist safety in…
The death blow to Turkey’s media
Turkey, once seen as a role model for the Middle East, is now hitting the headlines around the world with its systematic government crackdown on the free press. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s relentless assaults on the independent media has blown up with a final deadly strike to Turkey’s largest newspaper, Zaman, and its sister organization,…
International Journalism Festival
The tenth edition of the International Journalism Festival will take place in Perugia Italy from 06 to 10 April 2016. All festival sessions will be free entry for all attendees, without any need for registration. Jean-Paul Marthoz, CPJ’s EU Correspondent, will be speaking at the festival.
The Paris Effect: Journalism, Diplomacy, and Information Controls
Join CPJ advocacy director Courtney Radsch for a panel on Free Expression, Globalism and the New Strategic Communication at the Milton Wolf Seminar Series. As recent geopolitical and technological changes have altered the ways in which state and non- state actors think about the production and retention of popular loyalties, this panel considers the tensions…
RightsCon
RightsCon is the world’s leading conference convened on the future of the internet. Join RightsCon to shape the global conversation among human rights experts, business leaders, technologists, human rights experts, government representatives, investors, and advocates. CPJ staff will speak at several events, including: