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Journalists speak out on sexual attacks

CNN.com ran an op-ed by CPJ Deputy Editor Lauren Wolfe on sexual violence against journalists. The op-ed was published on June 7, the same day CPJ released the special report The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists authored by Wolfe.  Click here for the full story

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Q&A: Joel Simon on CPJ’s Impunity Index

Columbia Journalism Review published a Q&A with CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon on June 3 about CPJ’s 2011 Impunity Index. Among others questions, Simon answers the question: “It’s pretty startling to read in this report that 40 percent of journalists who were murdered in the listed countries in the last decade had received threats before…

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Press watchdog: State complicit in murder

The Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star interviewed CPJ Impunity Campaign and Journalists Assistance Program Coordinator Maria Salazar-Ferro about CPJ’s 2011 Impunity Index. In the interview Salazar-Ferro talks about global trends in the murders of journalists as well as Lebanese cases. The interview was published in print and online on June 2. Click here for the full…

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CPJ launches 2011 Impunity Index

On June 1, CPJ published its 2011 Impunity Index spotlighting countries where journalists are slain and killers go free. The index’s findings were covered by a wide variety of news organizations. Some highlights include stories on AFP, AP, Associated Press of Pakistan, EFE (in Spanish) and Reuters. The index, which ranks Iraq, Somalia and the Philippines at the top of the…

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Shocking: Journalists under attack: 2010-2011

Based on CPJ’s research, LIFE.com published a series of photos and case profiles of some journalists killed since January 2010 while doing their jobs. Click here to see the photos

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Zardari pledges press freedom: media rights group

On May 4, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn covered CPJ’s meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari who pledged to take action over the killings of journalists in Pakistan.  Click here for the full story

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Digital censorship grows as media moves online

The Associated Press published a story regarding CPJ’s special report The 10 Tools of Online Oppressors released to mark World Press Freedom Day.  Click here for the full story

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Dawit Kebede: The need to publish

The video journalism website VJ Movement featured CPJ International Press Freedom Award winner Dawit Kebede on  April 28 in a piece that portrays the challenges of working in Ethiopia.  Click here to watch the video

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Journalists gave their lives to bear witness

Is it worth it? CPJ Deputy Director Rob Mahoney reflects on the question in an op-ed that was published on CNN.com on April 21, a day after photographers Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed in Libya. Click here for the full story

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International media group mourns loss of ‘press freedom champion’ Joe Pavia

GMA News quotes CPJ Senior Southeast Asia Representative Shawn Crispin in an April 21 article on the loss of Philippine veteran journalist and press freedom advocate Jose Pavia. Click here for the full story

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