Stark regional differences are seen as jailings grow significantly in the Middle East and North Africa. Dozens of journalists are held without charge, many in secret prisons. A CPJ special report
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At least 42 journalists are killed in 2010 as two trends emerge. Suicide attacks and violent street protests cause an unusually high proportion of deaths. And online journalists are increasingly prominent among the victims. A CPJ special report
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CPJ survey finds at least 68 journalists killed in 2009
New York, December 17, 2009—At least 68 journalists worldwide were killed for their work in 2009, the highest yearly tally ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the organization said in its year-end analysis. The record toll was driven in large part by the election-related slaughter of more than 30 media workers in the Philippine province of Maguindanao, the deadliest event for the press in CPJ history.
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In “Portraits of the Fallen,” a video introduction to CPJ’s database of killed journalists, María Salazar-Ferro examines the circumstances in which reporters, photographers, editors, and other journalists have died on duty. Because hundreds of journalists have been murdered in reprisal for their work, CPJ is leading a Global Campaign Against Impunity. (4:11)
Visit our database of journalists killed since 1992. Get involved in our Campaign Against Impunity.
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CPJ’s Joel Simon, Robert Mahoney, and Nina Ognianova pay tribute to journalists who died in 2008. The toll was highest in Iraq, but conflicts in South Asia and the Caucasus were deadly as well. Impunity in journalist murders in Russia, Philippines, and Mexico were top issues.
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journalists in jail as of December 1, 2008
New York, December 4,
2008--Reflecting the rising influence of online reporting and
commentary, more Internet journalists are jailed worldwide today than
journalists working in any other medium. In its annual census of imprisoned
journalists, released today, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that 45
percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, Web-based
reporters, or online editors. Online journalists represent the largest
professional category for the first time in CPJ's prison census.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is again marking World
Press Freedom Day, Monday, May 3, by naming the World’s Worst Places to
Be a Journalist. The list of 10 places represents the full range of current
threats to press freedom.
Israeli troops destroyed several Palestinian broadcast outlets during the West Bank offensive. Was it an attempt to silence the media?
Palestinian journalist Taher Shriteh has been a virtual prisoner in Gaza since 1995. In this exclusive essay, he describes his struggle to report the news.
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