New York, December 15, 2016–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…
New York, December 6, 2016 — The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its annual census of journalists imprisoned worldwide on December 13, 2016. CPJ found that more journalists were imprisoned this year than in any year since CPJ’s first prison census, published in the 1990 edition of Attacks on the Press. The census catalogs…
CPJ’s 2016 International Press Freedom Awards New York, November 15, 2016–Four remarkable journalists who have navigated chilling media landscapes in Egypt, El Salvador, India, and Turkey will be honored at the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2016 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual ceremony that recognizes courageous journalism. The awardees have faced great risk to cover…
New York, October 20, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its annual report, “Getting Away With Murder – 2016 Global Impunity Index,” on October 27. The index, published annually to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on November 2, spotlights countries where journalists are murdered and their killers go…
New York, September 21–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its special report on conditions for Cuba’s press on September 28, 2016, entitled “Connecting Cuba: More Space for Criticism but Restrictions Slow Press Freedom Progress.” Based on interviews with journalists and bloggers, the report examines how the media landscape has changed since President Raúl Castro…
New York, May 27, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists will call for the cases of five Vietnamese-American journalists who were killed between 1981 and 1990 to be reopened, based on information uncovered by ProPublica and Frontline. The suspected assassinations were the subject of CPJ’s 1994 report, “Silenced, The Unsolved Murders of Immigrant Journalists in the…
CPJ to release comparative study of criminal defamation laws in the Americas New York, February 8, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release a special report on the status of criminal defamation laws in the Americas. This new report, prepared for CPJ by Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in collaboration with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, seeks…