Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths
- ‘We returned from hell’: Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons
- 2025 journalist jailings remain stubbornly high; harsh prison conditions pervasive
- Alarm bells: Trump’s first 100 days ramp up fear for the press, democracy
- 2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel
- In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists
- Haiti, Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, CPJ 2024 impunity index shows
- No justice for journalists targeted by Israel despite strong evidence of war crime
- On Edge: What the US election could mean for journalists and global press freedom
Reporter Without Borders
NYT Publisher Sulzberger Shares Threats to Journalism in Trump Era
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger wrote an op-ed about a relentless global campaign targeting journalists because of the “fundamental role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.”
Read the whole piece, “The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World,” here >>
In the piece, Sulzberger tells a chilling story about a reporter based in Egypt named Declan Walsh. A US government official informed the Times that he was in danger of imminent arrest. But the official was doing so without the permission of the Trump administration: “Rather than trying to stop the Egyptian government or assist the reporter, the official believed, the Trump administration intended to sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out. The official feared being punished for even alerting us to the danger.”