CPJ Highlights: May edition
June 1, 2017 3:44 PM ET
Days after Mexican president pledges to combat impunity, local journalist killed On May 4, a CPJ delegation visited Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto as part of a mission to launch a special report, "No Excuse," which calls on the government to do more to bring those who murder journalists to...
CPJ Highlights: April edition
April 28, 2017 4:28 PM ET
CPJ releases Attacks on the Press CPJ launched the 2017 edition of our annual publication Attacks on the Press at two events on April 25. The book, "The New Face of Censorship," explores the evolution of censorship tactics into sophisticated tools used to control the flow of information around the...
CPJ Highlights: March edition
April 5, 2017 12:29 PM ET
Standing in solidarity with the U.S. press In recent months, CPJ has documented charges brought against at least 10 journalists who were covering protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota and Lee County, Iowa. We have consistently called on authorities to drop the charges against the journalists, most...
CPJ Highlights: February edition
February 27, 2017 3:49 PM ET
Press freedom in the US--and what CPJ's doing about it CPJ continues to advocate for journalists and press freedom in the United States. In a February 25 op-ed published in The New York Times titled "Trump is damaging press freedom in the U.S. and abroad," CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon...
CPJ Highlights: January edition
January 31, 2017 8:23 AM ET
Meryl Streep's nod to CPJ leads to record-breaking number of donations Earlier this month, Meryl Streep ascended the stage at the Golden Globes ceremony to accept the Cecil B. DeMille Award and gave a resounding speech about the importance of a free press in the United States....
CPJ Highlights: November edition
November 11, 2016 11:56 AM ET
Note to our readers: CPJ plans to intensify our documentation of press freedom violations in the United States, following the election on November 8, 2016, of Donald Trump as president. During his campaign, Trump verbally attacked journalists, restricted access, threatened lawsuits, and promised to make legal action against the media...
CPJ Newsletter: Exhibit of jailed photographer's work moves to Photoville, journalist released from jail, and we join our partners at the UN
September 21, 2016 3:21 PM ET
October edition Next stop for exhibit of Shawkan's work: Photoville In mid-September, CPJ partnered with the Bronx Documentary Center to hold an exhibition of photographs taken by Mahmoud Abou Zeid, or Shawkan, a freelance journalist who has been imprisoned in Egypt since August 2013. Many of Shawkan's photos--from protests and...
CPJ Newsletter: We fight back against defamation, highlight impunity in India, and host an exhibit on Shawkan's works
September 1, 2016 2:00 PM ET
September edition IOC creates mechanism for journalist complaints after CPJ consultation In early August, we welcomed the creation of a press freedom complaints mechanism by the International Olympic Committee. The move followed years of advocacy with the IOC by CPJ and other rights groups to do more to hold governments...