Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Amid COVID-19, the prognosis for press freedom is dim. Here are 10 symptoms to track
- The Trump Administration and the Media
- About: The Trump Administration and the Media
- Trust deficit: About This Report
- Trust deficit: Guatemala’s new president must overcome skepticism to improve press freedom
- Trust deficit: ‘The goal was to silence me’
- Number of journalists killed falls sharply as reprisal murders hit record low
- One Country, One Censor: How China undermines media freedom in Hong Kong and Taiwan
- One Country, One Censor: Recommendations
Reporter Without Borders
- RSF and 13 other groups call on US governors and mayors to ensure safety of journalists; investigate First Amendment violations during protests
- Burundian appeal court upholds prison sentences for four journalists
- Turkey: Joint letter condemning withholding of state advertising
- Afghan journalists fall victim to both bombings and Covid-19
- Making police unidentifiable in the media, the proposed French bill would seriously restrict press freedom
- Tajik reporter’s assailants get nothing more than fines
- Journalist arrested in city controlled by Syrian government
- Cameroonian journalist Samuel Wazizi died in detention
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.”