Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 14, 2017
May 15, 2017 12:25 PM ET
Police search homes of opposition newspaper owner, staff Police searched the homes of the owner and three employees of the daily newspaper Sözcü, one of the last remaining large media outlets that opposes the government, the newspaper reported today....
Transition to Trump: Why U.S. needs to be global leader in protecting strong encryption
January 5, 2017 12:43 PM ET
As a new presidential administration prepares to take over the U.S., CPJ examines the status of press freedom, including the challenges journalists face from surveillance, harassment, limited transparency, the questioning of libel laws, and other factors....
Apple vulnerability is surprising, but journalists should stick with iPhones
August 25, 2016 5:57 PM ET
A rare and serious vulnerability in Apple's iOS operating system has been discovered by researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which today published a report detailing its findings. It is the first known remote iOS vulnerability of...
Journalists overcome obstacles through crowdfunding and determination
April 27, 2015 11:01 AM ET
During South Africa's Boer War, at the turn of the 20th century, a determined news organization relocated reporters, copy editors, and printing presses to the front line to ensure accurate reporting. In the Warsaw Ghetto, during World War II,...
While tech companies call for spying reform, telcos silent
December 12, 2013 5:20 PM ET
On Monday, eight of the world's leading technology companies set aside their rivalries to issue a direct challenge to U.S. lawmakers: lead the world by example and fix America's broken surveillance state. Although the tech companies' statement sends a powerful...
Secrecy, scale of PRISM raise alarms
June 7, 2013 7:19 AM ET
Government surveillance of electronic communications "should be regarded as a highly intrusive act that potentially interferes with the rights to freedom of expression and privacy and threatens the foundations of a democratic society," Frank La Rue, U.N. special rapporteur...
Weak cyber protections lead to personal, institutional risk
August 6, 2012 6:14 PM ET
The Syrian civil war is also a propaganda war. With the Assad regime and the rebels both attempting to assure their supporters and the world that they are on the brink of victory, how the facts are reported has become...
Apple-Gizmodo case takes a bite out of global journalism
May 26, 2010 9:04 AM ET
Modern technology blurs our definitions of journalism, so it's no surprise that the first important tests of the new world should take place in the heart of Silicon Valley. But we should take care that arguments in widely publicized...