Issues

Journalists working in the United States are facing extraordinary and intensifying pressures amid President Donald Trump’s second term. From frivolous lawsuits and serious restrictions on coverage, including the removal of experienced journalists from the White House and the Pentagon, to an unprecedented surge of immigration-related assaults on journalists by law enforcement, press freedom in the United States…

Despite concerted efforts to tackle impunity, the lack of meaningful improvement in accountability for journalist killings in the past decades indicates more must be done to deliver justice. Amid stagnant progress, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is reimagining its own approach to impunity. On International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2025,…

Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented. Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted, and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work. Israel has systematically destroyed media infrastructure in Gaza, and tightened censorship throughout…

When the Trump administration ordered the defunding of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free outlets in March 2025, it silenced independent news that reached millions, many in countries where the press is heavily censored. These outlets had won initial legal victories, but recent setbacks have shut many operations down, and the toll on journalism…

Journalists face a multitude of threats and are increasingly being pushed into exile in response to their work. Almost half of the journalists CPJ supported in 2024 are living in exile, and this number has grown in recent years.  In 2024, most of the individual support grants CPJ awarded from the Gene Roberts Fund for…