Univision News premieres “PRESSionados” (PRESSured), an original one-hour documentary on the freedom of the press in several Latin American countries featuring CPJ’s research. The award-winning Documentary Unit traveled throughout Latin America to record first-hand accounts of journalists and reporters. Viewers will learn how renowned journalists, as well as owners of prominent media outlets, have been…
Four journalists who face imprisonment and other threats for exposing realities in Ecuador, Egypt, Turkey, and Vietnam were honored with CPJ’s 2013 International Press Freedom Awards held on November 26, 2013.Amanda Gordon of Bloomberg profiled several of our notable guests and compiled the highlights of the evening.Read the full story here.
Author of our US Report, The Obama Administration and the Press, Leonard Downie Jr., spoke to KQED public radio with New York Times journalist James Risen, on the findings of the report and the protection of sources.Listen to the full discussion here.
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka approaches, the government’s anti-media policies remain a pressing topic. Asia Program Coordinator, Bob Dietz, spoke to the Financial Times about the current status of press freedom in Sri Lanka.Read the full story here.
Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, both of the French government-funded Radio France Internationale, were the first journalists to be killed in Mali in relation to their work since CPJ started compiling detailed records on journalist deaths in 1992. CPJ issued an alert and Frank Smyth, the CPJ Senior Adviser for Journalist Security, wrote a blog.Deputy Director,…
The report–which was written by Leonard Downie, Jr., Arizona State University journalism professor and former Washington Post executive editor, with additional reporting by Sara Rafsky, CPJ’s research associate for the Americas–received widespread coverage in the United States, including on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Huffington Post Live, and NPR’s On the Media.
Following CPJ’s release of its report on the state of press freedom in the United States, Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Guardian that the report “powerfully underscores just how extreme is the threat to press freedom posed by this administration.” Read the full story here.
After Jennifer Lopez performed at an event in Turkmenistan on Saturday night, the Guardian created a guide to the “-stans” so “no pop star need be caught out by accidentally singing happy birthday to a despotic ruler in this region ever again.” The guide points to the fact that Uzbekistan was sixth on CPJ’s list…
Cuba is one of the world’s most censored countries, despite fewer long-term detentions of journalists in recent years, according to CPJ research. In January, the airing of Latin America’s Telesur TV channel have granted Cubans access to unfiltered news programming, unlike the state-controlled airwaves. In an interview with the Associated Press, Senior CPJ Americas Program Coordinator,…
CPJ reported on the detention of Somali journalist Abdiaziz Abdinuur for interviewing an internally displaced woman, who claimed she was raped by Somali soldiers while living in a camp last year. Ahead of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s meeting with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, CPJ asked Cameron to urge Mohamud to follow through on his commitment to press…