New York, December 15, 2017–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its annual report on journalists killed in relation to their work.CPJ’s report includes a comprehensive catalog of journalists worldwide who were killed in connection to their work. A breakdown of the cases by country, medium, gender, freelancers, and the number of local versus international…
New York, December 8, 2017–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its annual census of journalists imprisoned worldwide on December 13, 2017.The census lists journalists imprisoned as of midnight on December 1, 2017, and indicates the country where held, charge, and medium of work for each imprisoned journalist. It does not include the many journalists…
CPJ’s 2017 International Press Freedom Awards New York, November 2, 2017–Four inspiring journalists from Cameroon, Mexico, Thailand, and Yemen will be honored with the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2017 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous journalism.
New York, October 24, 2017–The Committee to Protect Journalists will publish its annual list of countries where journalists are murdered regularly and their killers go free on October 31, 2017. Launch of the report, “Getting Away With Murder – 2017 Global Impunity Index,” will mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists…
New York, September 15, 2017–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its report, “Journalists Not Terrorists: In Cameroon, anti-terror legislation is used to silence critics and suppress dissent,” on September 20. Cameroonian authorities have used a broad anti-terror law, enacted in 2014, to arrest and threaten local journalists who report on the militant group Boko…
New York, July 5, 2017–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its report, “Justice Denied: Ukraine comes up empty in probe of Pavel Sheremet’s murder,” at a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, on July 12. Nearly a year after prominent journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in Kiev, no one has been…
This year’s edition looks at new face of censorship New York, April 18, 2017–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its annual publication, Attacks on the Press, on April 25, 2017. The theme of this year’s edition is “The New Face of Censorship.”
New York, February 14, 2017– The Committee to Protect Journalists will launch its special report, “The Best Defense: Threats to journalists’ safety demand fresh approach,” on February 21, 2017. The report finds that more work remains to be done to improve journalists’ safety at a time of unprecedented threats, including the spread of violent non-state…