Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Attacks on the press: The deadliest countries in 2021
- ‘Night and day’: The Biden administration and the press
- Number of journalists behind bars reaches global high
- Killers of journalists still get away with murder
- Bitter reversal: Myanmar military coup wipes out press freedom gains
- Murders of journalists more than double worldwide
- Record number of journalists jailed worldwide
- Getting Away with Murder
- Covering police violence protests in the US
Reporter Without Borders
- Amadou Vamoulké completes 2,000 days in prison in Cameroon without being convicted
- RSF condemns gag-suit against Malaysian journalist
- RSF denounces Indian government “coup” against Kashmir Press Club
- Sadibou Marong takes over as director of RSF’s West Africa bureau
- RSF asks UN to investigate Iranian journalist Baktash Abtin’s death
- Malta: Implementation of Public Inquiry recommendations must meet international standards
- Nineteen organisations reiterate their support for Carole Cadwalladr as she faces SLAPP trial
- Bulgaria: Alarming SLAPP cases endanger fragile media freedom
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.”