The Best Defense
February 21, 2017 9:00 AM ET
Threats to journalists' safety demand fresh approach Reporting on wars and natural disasters is inherently dangerous, but the spread of insurgent and criminal groups globally poses an unprecedented risk to journalists. Since the videotaped killings of James Foley and Steven...
The Best Defense
February 21, 2017 9:00 AM ET
Only universal technical security will keep journalists safe By Tom Lowenthal, CPJ Staff Technologist Journalism is an information field — its practice is based on communication with sources, compiling and analyzing information and data, and then publishing and sharing the...
Hong Kong journalists try range of models to battle press freedom challenges
January 12, 2017 3:41 PM ET
A new Chinese-language website pledging to provide Hong Kong with "independent, accurate and fair" news is the latest journalism venture to open in the city, in an attempt to counter increasing Chinese control of the media. Citizen News was...
China's overseas critics under pressure from smear campaigns, cyber attacks
March 11, 2016 5:57 PM ET
"I think my actions ... have harmed the national interest. What I have done was very wrong. I seriously and earnestly accept to learn a lesson and plead guilty," said Chinese journalist Gao Yu during a televised confession on the...
Mission Journal: Crimea's journalists in exile as Russia muzzles free press
July 14, 2015 11:45 AM ET
"First they asked if my parents had any guns or drugs in the apartment, then they showed my picture to my mother and asked her to identify me," Anna Andriyevskaya said. The Crimean journalist, who is living in exile...
China's Great Cannon: New weapon to suppress free speech online
April 21, 2015 6:12 PM ET
China, rated as the eighth most censored country in the world, in a report released by CPJ today, has long had a strong line of defense against free speech online. Its Golden Shield Project, launched by the Ministry of...
When it comes to Great Firewall attacks, HTTPS is greatest defense
April 8, 2015 2:03 PM ET
The power of HTTPS to protect has been brought into sharp focus by a series of attacks against software collaboration site GitHub. These attacks consistently failed because of the site's universal use of HTTPS. Most recently, GitHub reported a...
Uighur blogger Ilham Tohti sentenced to life in prison on separatism charges
September 23, 2014 2:34 PM ET
New York, September 23, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces the life term handed down by a Chinese court today to Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uighur blogger and academic, and calls for his unconditional release. Tohti was found guilty...
Boxun news site attacked amid Bo Xilai coverage
April 25, 2012 5:14 PM ET
New York, April 25, 2012--The U.S.-based, Chinese-language news website Boxun has come under two crippling denial-of-service attacks in the past week as the outlet sought to report on the unfolding murder and corruption scandal involving former senior Communist Party...