Event Coverage Highlight

Over the last nearly two years, we have repeatedly witnessed record new threats to press freedom in Gaza, including Israel and Egypt enacting a ban on access for foreign journalists to do independent reporting, relentless campaigns to discredit and blacklist Palestinian journalists who risk their lives every day to bear witness, and the killings of at least 189 Palestinian journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, while other groups, such as the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, put the number even higher. “Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented,” according to the world’s leading press freedom organization.

Amid these dire threats, individual journalists, press freedom groups, and some newsrooms have drawn upon the traditional tools in their advocacy arsenal: letters, statements, condemnations, and the occasional Israeli court case. None of these efforts has resulted in change.

On Thursday Sept. 25, join us for a conversation about what urgent efforts and possibilities should be on the table for our industry at this moment. Panelists include Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists; Kenneth Roth, Former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch; Laila Al-Arian, Executive Producer of Fault Lines; Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Middle East Editor of Drop Site News; and Trevor Timm, Executive Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

This event is open to the public, but RSVP is required. Refreshments will be provided.

This event is co-sponsored by the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism and the Columbia Journalism Review at Columbia University and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

For questions about this event, please contact Mindy Myers: mem2293@columbia.edu.