Bill Sweeney

Bill Sweeney is CPJ’s editorial director, responsible for all of the organization’s online and print publications. He is former New York City news editor for The Associated Press.

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A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action

By Bill Sweeney/Editorial Director

We've launched a new section of our Web site, and we hope you take a few minutes to read some of its pages. There is one, for example, on Russian reporter Natalya Estemirova, who dared to examine human rights crimes in

Chechnya

. Another is devoted to Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco, a Tijuana newspaper editor who exposed the workings of the Arellano Félix drug cartel. They are among the 758 journalists killed for their work since 1992. Our new database memorializes these women and men, most of whom were local reporters, photographers, producers, and editors who confronted the powerful or took unpopular positions.

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