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Upcoming events

Journalist Security Onsite and Online

CPJ is partnering with Internews in Washington, D.C., for a panel discussion on journalist security on June 13. The panel will feature Frank Smyth and Danny O'Brien, the authors of CPJ's Journalist Security Guide, along with Washington Post senior correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran. 

To RSVP for the event, visit http://journalistsecurity.eventbrite.com


Previous events

May 22, 2012 As part of CPJ Debrief, the new discussion series featuring frontline journalists, Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times spoke about reporting in Somalia at The Half King on 505 W 23 Street at 7 p.m.  

On April 26, CPJ released an updated version of the CPJ Journalist Security Guide, which will offer journalists around the world guidelines for basic preparedness, advice on complex issues such as digital security and threat assessment.

CPJ partnered with the Bronx Documentary Center on April 19 for the screening of the documentary, Bearing Witness. A film highlighting the professional and personal lives of five female journalists, including the late Marie Colvin.  

March 13, CPJ's Nina Oganianova to be speak in Washington, D.C. on the panel "The Big Chill:  Press Freedom in Turkey." 

March 6, 2012 CPJ's Americas Senior Program Coordinator, Carlos Lauria and Mexico Representative, Mike O'Connor, launched the Attacks on the Press report in city of Culiacan in Sinaloa, Mexico.

March 2, 2012 CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon participated in an expert panel at Cambridge University on the international efforts to protect journalists at risk, where he was joined by the U.N. Rapporteur on the right to extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, Chritof Heyns, and Frank La Rue, the U.N. Rapporteur for freedom of expression.