Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Police raid Cairo offices of Turkish Anadolu News Agency, arrest at least 4
- Ugandan police harass and detain journalists covering opposition politician Bobi Wine
- Journalist Patricia Kayuni assaulted while covering protest in Malawi
- Missing radio anchor found dead in Mexico’s Michoacán state
- Sudan suspends four news outlets over alleged financial link to Bashir regime
- Colombian magazine Semana alleges military spied on its journalists
- Montenegro reporters Živković and Raičević charged with criminal incitement
- Malawi detains, charges 3 journalists seeking to cover EU delegation’s return
- Journalists threatened, assaulted while covering local politician in Sierra Leone
Reporter Without Borders
- UK: Legal arguments during the first week of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing highlight lack of US evidence
- Turkey : Danish reporter convicted of “terrorist propaganda” for photo shared on Facebook
- Greek public broadcaster censors reports from islands about new migrant camps
- Poland : journalist investigated for coverage of Gdansk mayor’s assassination
- Canadian police arrest American journalist covering indigenous protest
- Benin : investigative journalist Ignace Sossou must be released on appeal
- Spain urged to repeal gag law, complete state TV and radio reform, and stop obstructing reporters
- Albania: RSF condemns China’s harassment of a journalist who reported on repression in Xinjiang
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.”