2014

Michael Calderone of the Huffington Post interviewed Nina Ognianova, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator, about CPJ’s special report on press conditions leading up to the Sochi Olympics. Read the full article here.

The Daily News Egypt interviewed CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, Sherif Mansour, about the dangers facing journalists in Egypt.Read the full article here.

Organized crime has taken over Neza, a town on the outskirts of Mexico City, but journalists are not reporting on it because they fear for their lives, the late Mike O’Connor found in his final article for the Committee to Protect Journalists. The piece, entitled “Gunmen Rule Neza and the Press on Outskirts of Mexico…

Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, Sherif Mansour, spoke to CNN Reliable Sources about the Al-Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt.

The New York Times profiled the only journalist in the Americas on CPJ’s 2013 imprisoned list, Roger Shuler.Shuler was arrested on October 23 on contempt of court charges for failure to comply with an October 1 preliminary injunction prohibiting him from publishing certain stories on his blog Legal Schnauzer. The charges stem from a defamation suit brought by prominent local…

The Guardian’s datablog visualizes CPJ’s 2013 killed report.Read the full story here.

With the sudden death of CPJ Mexico Representative Mike O’Connor, 67, Mexican journalists have lost one of their most formidable advocates. Mike will be remembered as someone who was on the forefront of the struggle for press freedom. Below are some of the many tributes:The New York Times. The Guardian El Nuevo Herald AP The…