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More Awareness of Risks for Freelancers One Year After Foley, Sotloff Beheadings
Journalists who regularly cover violence are considered a hard-boiled bunch. But a year ago this month, even the toughest were crying. There was no emotional body armor to deflect the horror of the...
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Silence in Burundi as Violence Forces Independent Press Into Exile
On June 24, a grenade was thrown through the window of Voice of America correspondent Diane Nininahazwe’s home. It was one of three cases CPJ has documented in recent months where grenades were thrown...
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Privatizing Censorship in Fight Against Extremism is Risk to Press Freedom
“We’re stepping up our efforts to discredit ISIL’s propaganda, especially online,” President Barack Obama told delegates at the Leaders’ Summit on Countering Violent Extremism last month. The social...
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In China, Harsh Penalties for ‘False News’ Could Muzzle Journalists
China’s journalists and bloggers, already under threat of persecution, have faced new risks since November 1, when amendments to the country’s criminal law came into effect. Under the amendment,...
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How Argentine Broadcast Law Rewards Friendly Outlets and Discriminates...
The moment polls closed for Argentina’s presidential election on October 25, the C5N cable news station breathlessly reported that ruling party candidate Daniel Scioli had triumphed and would succeed...
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Syria, France Top List as Most Deadly Countries for Press in 2015
Click here or on the image for the full year in review. From the eight journalists who were killed at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January to the murders of four bloggers and a...
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One Year After Charlie Hebdo, Will Press Freedom Become Victim of War on Terror?
Who would have thought that France would top the list of most deadly countries for the press in 2015, second only to Syria? The massacre of eight cartoonists and journalists by Islamic militants at...
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Venezuela’s National Assembly Reopens to the Press after Five-Year Ban
This article first appeared on the Committee to Protect Journalists blog. When security guards opened the doors to Venezuela’s colonial-era National Assembly building last Wednesday, I was among the...
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79 Cases and Counting: Legal Challenges Pile up for Daily Star Editor Who...
This article first appeared on the Committee to Protect Journalists blog. When Mahfuz Anam, editor of one of Bangladesh’s most respected newspapers, admitted recently to a lapse in editorial judgment...
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Amid Violence in Brazil, Convictions in Journalists’ Murders are Cause for...
This article first appeared on the Committee to Protect Journalists blog. Justice delayed is justice denied, goes the legal maxim, and that has all too often been the case in Latin America. But the...
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Rise in Journalist Arrests Tarnishes Jordan’s Image as Reformist
This article first appeared on the Committee to Protect Journalists blog. The phone call came just as our conversation about the escalating crackdown on Jordanian media hit its stride. Lina Ejeilat,...
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How to Stay Safe While Covering the U.S. Political Party Conventions
This post first appeared on the Committee to Protect Journalists blog. The U.S. political party conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia this summer carry the risk of civil unrest. While protests...
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Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. How the Committee to Protect...
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Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. Committee to Protect Journalists...
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker Gives Important Context to Attacks on the Press
As concerns about domestic press freedom violations grow, a coalition of media partners has created a database to track those violations. Launching today, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker will serve as a...
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Why We Should Prioritize Women Journalists’ Safety
Each year we read tragic stories about journalists who are killed on the job. The recent series of attacks on women journalists, though, reflects new levels of violence and retribution that deserve...
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CPJ Presents the Press Oppressors Awards
A version of this post originally appeared on CPJ’s website. Amid the public discourse of fake news and President Trump’s announcement via Twitter about his planned “fake news” awards ceremony, CPJ is...
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