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
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…
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…
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…