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How the United States’ Spying Strengthens China’s Hand

February 12, 2014 2:25 AM EST

The scope of the National Security Agency’s digital surveillance raises doubts about the U.S. commitment to freedom of expression online. By Joel Simon

The NSA Puts Journalists Under a Cloud of Suspicion

February 12, 2014 2:25 AM EST

Governments’ capacity to store transactional data and the content of communications poses a unique threat to journalism in the digital age. By Geoffrey King

Media surveillance and ‘the day we fight back’

February 11, 2014 11:10 AM EST

Today, a broad coalition of technology companies, human rights organizations, political groups, and others will take to the Web and to the streets to protest mass surveillance. The mobilization, known as “The Day We Fight Back,” honors activist and technologist Aaron Swartz, who passed away just over a year ago. Throughout the day, the campaign…

Chinese policemen manhandle a foreign photographer outside the trial of Xu Zhiyong, founder of the New Citizens movement, in Beijing on January 26. (AP/Andy Wong)

More light shed on ‘China’s tougher tactics’

January 29, 2014 1:57 PM EST

Since CPJ blogged on Monday that tougher tactics are emerging in China toward local and foreign media–and the situation looks to get worse–a few more developments have arisen.

Obama’s legacy on the line with surveillance policy

January 15, 2014 2:55 PM EST

When President Obama takes the lectern to discuss U.S. surveillance policy, as he is expected to do Friday, those hoping for sweeping reform are likely to be disappointed. As reported in The New York Times, the president appears poised to reject many of the recommendations of his Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, a…

Covering China goes far beyond the current visa woes

December 12, 2013 2:40 PM EST

Everyone agreed at the panel discussion I took part in yesterday in Washington that the fate of about two dozen journalists working for The New York Times and Bloomberg News in China is unresolved. No one knows what will happen by the ostensible deadline of midnight, December 31, 2013, for their expulsion. I say ostensible,…

The front page of The New York Times, the day after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from office. (AFP/Stan Honda)

The US press is our press

October 10, 2013 10:00 AM EDT

The international media depend on the U.S. press to cover U.S. stories–and many of these, from the subprime mortgage crisis to NSA surveillance, are global stories because of their worldwide repercussions. But international journalists also rely on the U.S. press to report and comment on most world events. Therefore any restriction on U.S. journalists’ freedom…

Police officer indicted over photojournalist’s false arrest

September 4, 2013 12:34 PM EDT

The flash or, more precisely, the lack of one, gave the policeman away. Over a year ago, on a steamy Saturday night in the Bronx, New York City Police Officer Michael Ackermann claimed that a photojournalist had set off his flash repeatedly in the officer’s face, blinding and distracting him, as he was arresting a…

News outlets, Twitter targeted in alleged cyberattacks

August 28, 2013 5:27 PM EDT

New York, August 28, 2013–The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by cyber-attacks on several websites on Tuesday, including The New York Times, whose site was disabled for several hours. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group of hackers who support President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, took credit for the attack via its Twitter account.…

Du Bin speaks on his phone after being released conditionally from jail. (AP/Hu Jia)

Chinese journalist released but restrictions remain

July 11, 2013 1:25 PM EDT

Hong Kong, July 11, 2013–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Chinese filmmaker and photographer Du Bin after 37 days of detention but calls on authorities to refrain from pursuing formal charges against him.