Media Advisories

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, August 22, 2016 — The Committee to Protect Journalists will release a special report on press freedom in India on August 29, 2016, entitled “Dangerous pursuit: In India, journalists who cover corruption may pay with their lives.”

New York, July 21, 2016–The U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Committee will vote on July 25 on whether to grant the Committee to Protect Journalists consultative status at the United Nations.

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…

New York, April 20, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its annual publication, Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide, on April 27, 2016.

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…

New York, December 16, 2015–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…

Press freedom groups to hold press conference in Brussels New York, December 11, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists will take part in a joint press conference on Turkey’s press freedom record, alongside Reporters Without Borders and the European Federation of Journalists. The press conference, “EU must stop its double standards with Turkey,” will be held…

New York, December 8, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its annual census of journalists imprisoned worldwide on December 15, 2015. The census catalogs journalists imprisoned as of midnight on December 1, 2015 and indicates the country where held, charge, and medium of work for each imprisoned journalist. It does not include the many…

New York, October 20, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists will release a special report, “In Tunisia, press freedom erodes amid security fears,” on October 27, 2015, at a press conference in Tunis.