CPJ at 30: Celebrating the struggle
CPJ founders and board members along with supporters and friends filed into Columbia University’s Italian Academy on Thursday for a series of events to mark the 30 years of CPJ’s existence. The celebration started with a 20-minute sneak peek at a feature-length documentary about CPJ that will be released later this year.
Thirty years on, CPJ gathers lessons and looks forward
Journalists rarely report on themselves. But in 1981, when two of them heard about a Paraguayan reporter who had been arrested and was facing a potential prison term simply for reporting the news, they were convinced that it was time to act. It was this desire to help a colleague under threat that was the…