In the News

2013

  

At least 70 journalists killed in 2013

Stuart Hughes, BBC Senior World Affairs Producer, presents CPJ’s 2013 killed report.

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While Tech Companies Call for Spying Reform, Telcos Silent

Geoffrey King, CPJ’s Internet Advocacy Coordinator, published a piece on PBS Media Shift about the absence of telecommunications companies signatures on an open letter calling for the US government “to take the lead and make reforms that ensure that government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted by law, proportionate to the risks, transparent, and subject to…

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Buzzfeed: 10 countries with the most imprisoned journalists

CPJ’s imprisoned list as a Buzzfeed Top 10 List. Read the full article here.

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Univision News premieres “PRESSionados” (PRESSured)

Univision News premieres “PRESSionados” (PRESSured), an original one-hour documentary on the freedom of the press in several Latin American countries featuring CPJ’s research. The award-winning Documentary Unit traveled throughout Latin America to record first-hand accounts of journalists and reporters. Viewers will learn how renowned journalists, as well as owners of prominent media outlets, have been…

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Jon Stewart’s Egyptian Twin, Buzzfeed in Black-Tie

Four journalists who face imprisonment and other threats for exposing realities in Ecuador, Egypt, Turkey, and Vietnam were honored with CPJ’s 2013 International Press Freedom Awards held on November 26, 2013.Amanda Gordon of Bloomberg profiled several of our notable guests and compiled the highlights of the evening.Read the full story here.

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Journalist Wages Legal Battle to Protect His Source

Author of our US Report, The Obama Administration and the Press, Leonard Downie Jr., spoke to KQED public radio with New York Times journalist James Risen, on the findings of the report and the protection of sources.Listen to the full discussion here.

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Censorship and threat of violence hang over Sri Lanka’s press

As the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka approaches, the government’s anti-media policies remain a pressing topic. Asia Program Coordinator, Bob Dietz, spoke to the Financial Times about the current status of press freedom in Sri Lanka.Read the full story here.

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Killing of French Journalists Reverberates in France and Mali

Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, both of the French government-funded Radio France Internationale, were the first journalists to be killed in Mali in relation to their work since CPJ started compiling detailed records on journalist deaths in 1992. CPJ issued an alert and Frank Smyth, the CPJ Senior Adviser for Journalist Security, wrote a blog.Deputy Director,…

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CPJ launches US report

The report–which was written by Leonard Downie, Jr., Arizona State University journalism professor and former Washington Post executive editor, with additional reporting by Sara Rafsky, CPJ’s research associate for the Americas–received widespread coverage in the United States, including on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Huffington Post Live, and NPR’s On the Media.

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Committee to Protect Journalists issues scathing report on Obama administration

Following CPJ’s release of its report on the state of press freedom in the United States, Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Guardian that the report “powerfully underscores just how extreme is the threat to press freedom posed by this administration.” Read the full story here.

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