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Getting Away With Murder

April 16, 2014 12:01 AM EDT

CPJ’s 2014 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free IraqUnsolved Murders: 100Population: 32.6 millionRank: 1 SomaliaUnsolved Murders: 26Population: 10.2 millionRank: 2 The PhilippinesUnsolved Murders: 51Population: 96.7 millionRank: 3 Sri LankaUnsolved Murders: 9Population: 20.3 millionRank: 4 SyriaUnsolved Murders: 7Population: 22.4 millionRank: 5 AfghanistanUnsolved Murders: 5Population: 29.8 millionRank: 6 MexicoUnsolved…

Two Spanish journalists freed from captivity in Syria

March 31, 2014 2:14 PM EDT

Two Spanish journalists were freed after being held captive in Syria for more than six months, according to news reports. The journalists–Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova–are back in Spain, according to news sources.

Lebanese army soldiers and residents gather at the site of an explosion in Nabi Osmane in the Bekaa Valley on March 17. (Reuters/Hassan Abdallah)

For journalists in Lebanon, Syrian dangers loom larger

March 17, 2014 2:25 PM EDT

The recent kidnapping of two journalists in Lebanon is the latest and most troubling evidence that the press is in increasing danger as the Syrian civil war spills over into Lebanese politics.

Syria, the most dangerous place for journalists

March 13, 2014 5:08 PM EDT

Three-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising New York, March 13, 2014–Syria ranks as the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Since the start of the bloody uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, at least 65 journalists have been killed, more than 80 have been abducted, and approximately…

Two journalists killed in two days in Syria

March 10, 2014 5:00 PM EDT

New York, March 10, 2014–Two journalists were killed over the weekend while covering the conflict in Syria, the deadliest country for the press.

Putting Press Freedom at the Heart of Anti-Poverty Efforts

February 12, 2014 2:25 AM EST

Economists and political scientists acknowledge that journalism is vital to development and democracy. By Robert Mahoney

CPJ Risk List

February 12, 2014 2:20 AM EST

Surveillance, restrictive Internet legislation, and cyberattacks compel CPJ to add cyberspace to the list of places trending in the wrong direction. By Maya Taal

Syrian Journalists Strive to Report, Despite Shifting Dangers

February 12, 2014 1:13 AM EST

They call themselves citizen journalists, media workers, or media activists. Amid the chaos of conflict, they are determined to gather and distribute the news. By María Salazar-Ferro Journalists Bryn Karcha, center, of Canada, and Toshifumi Fujimoto, right, of Japan, run for cover with an unidentified fixer in Aleppo’s district of Salaheddine on December 29, 2012.…

Attacks on the Press in 2013: Syria

February 12, 2014 1:02 AM EST

For the second year in a row, CPJ ranked Syria the deadliest country in the world for journalists. Journalists also faced new threats in 2013 as radical Islamist groups strengthened their influence in rebel-held territory and rebel groups saw increased infighting. An unprecedented number of journalists were abducted during the year; many of them were…

Put Syrian press freedom on Geneva agenda

January 22, 2014 12:31 PM EST

Today the Committee to Protect Journalists joins 15 other press freedom and media development organizations calling on the participants of the Syrian peace conference in Geneva to include freedom of the press and expression as “fundamental cornerstones in any viable political settlement.”