News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, September 2014
Prominent support for #RightToReport in the Digital Age More than 2,800 people including prominent journalists Christiane Amanpour, Glenn Greenwald, and Alan Rusbridger have already signed on to CPJ’s new campaign Right to Report in the Digital Age.
2014 International Press Freedom Awards
Honoring courage and perseverance Awardees from Burma, Iran, Russia, and South Africa New York, September 30, 2014–Four journalists from Burma, Iran, Russia, and South Africa will be honored with the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2014 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous reporting. These journalists have faced imprisonment, violence, and censorship.
CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2014
(Courtesy ABC News) Watch or read the remarks by dinner chairman Alberto Ibargüen as prepared for delivery. Aung Zaw, Burma Founder, editor-in-chief, The Irrawaddy Fact: At least eight journalists are behind bars in Burma. Tweet President Thein Sein: Release all jailed journalists in #Burma and stop the harassment of the media #IPFA Siamak Ghaderi, Iran…
Mikhail Zygar, Russia
2014 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee (Courtesy of ABC News) Mikhail Zygar is the editor-in-chief of the independent Russian TV channel Dozhd. Under Zygar’s leadership, Dozhd has provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by focusing on news content and giving a platform to opposition voices. The channel’s coverage of politically sensitive issues, like…
Jorge Ramos
2014 CPJ Burton Benjamin Memorial Awardee (Gio Alma) Jorge Ramos is a Mexican-American journalist and author. He has co-anchored the award-winning evening newscast “Noticiero Univision” (Univision News) since 1986. He also hosts “Al Punto” (To the Point), the Univision Network’s Sunday public affairs program, and recently started hosting his first program in English, “America with…
Aung Zaw, Burma
2014 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee (Courtesy of ABC News) Aung Zaw is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Irrawaddy, a news organization first established in 1993 that is dedicated to Burma-related news through a monthly magazine and daily news site. Branded an “enemy of the state” by the former military regime, The Irrawaddy continues…
Ferial Haffajee, South Africa
2014 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee (Courtesy of ABC News) Ferial Haffajee is the editor-in-chief of the local privately owned weekly City Press in South Africa. She was also the editor-in-chief of the weekly investigative paper the Mail & Guardian. Under her leadership, both papers have broken important stories, including “Nkandlagate”–the controversy around the alleged…
Critical Chinese writer Tie Liu arrested, home raided
New York, September 15, 2014–Police raided the home of a critical Chinese writer and publisher on Sunday, and detained him on a charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” according to his family and news reports. Huang Zerong, 81, had recently written articles criticizing restrictions on press freedom in China, according to news reports.
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, August 2014
US-Africa Leaders Summit President Barack Obama hosted the first US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C. this month. The discussion focused on trade and investment, but CPJ helped put press freedom on the agenda. At a time of unprecedented growth and change in Africa, journalists are under increasing pressure, with spikes in repression from Ethiopia to…
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, July 2014
CPJ conducts fact-finding mission in Ukraine Muzaffar Suleymanov, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia Research Associate, traveled to Kiev on July 6 on a week-long fact-finding mission and spoke to more than a dozen local and international journalists about press freedom conditions in the country. Suleymanov also met with journalists who had covered or were covering…