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Committee to Protect Journalists

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Committee to Protect Journalists

@pressfreedom

Press freedom is your freedom🗞️ The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes #pressfreedom worldwide.

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Joined January 2009

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) board of directors voted on Wednesday to affirm the organization’s existing definition of who is a journalist and rejected claims it planned to change its definition to exclude particular groups. Read more:
Board votes to affirm CPJ’s existing definition of who is a journalist - Committee to Protect...
From cpj.org
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CPJ defines journalists as people who regularly cover news or comment on public affairs through any medium to report or share fact-based information with an audience. Read our methodology:
Data Methodology and FAQs - Committee to Protect Journalists
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“I am writing to defend the very principle of documentation itself, because evidence-free allegations do not merely damage one institution; they erode confidence in every serious effort to build an accurate historical record of attacks on the press,” writes CPJ MENA Regional
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CPJ is aware that there is misinformation around our removal of 20 names from our Israel-Gaza war journalist casualties list. Read the following thread [1/9] ⬇️
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Replying to @pressfreedom
CPJ removed 3 Israeli journalists after their outlets confirmed that they were not on assignment when they were killed.
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CPJ continuously updates information, including adding or removing records, as new information becomes available. Read more about our methodology ➡️
Data Methodology and FAQs - Committee to Protect Journalists
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An independent media is vital for democracy. Access to information enables all people to make decisions and hold the powerful to account. A world without journalism is a world without truth. cpj.org/donate #JournalismMatters
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Rwanda tied with Ethiopia and Niger as the fourth worst jailer of journalists in Africa according to CPJ’s 2025 Prison Census, with five journalists imprisoned as of December 2025, four of whom are YouTube-based commentators. Read more from @risj_oxford ⤵️
Inside Rwanda’s campaign to silence independent journalism
From reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
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Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law. Facilities and equipment utilized for reporting and disseminating news are also civilian structures. They must be respected and protected. Journalists are #NotATarget.
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Jun 27
🏟️ Journalists: CPJ is here to ensure you stay safe while covering crowd events at the #WorldCup. Save this guidance for encountering crowd violence and police aggression, including violent dispersal tactics, detention, or arrest. More expert tips from CPJ👇
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As LGBTQ+ communities celebrate #Pride this month, many journalists continue to face an ugly reality: simply reporting on this community can open them up to prosecution, physical attacks, threats, arrest, exile, and even death. Read more about these risks and how to stay safe 👇
The high price journalists paid for LGBTQ+ reporting, and how to protect yourself now - Committee...
From cpj.org
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Want the latest news and views in #PressFreedom and #JournalistSafety from around the world, delivered straight to your inbox?📥 Subscribe to CPJ’s weekly newsletter, The Torch: cpj.org/thetorch/
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CPJ MENA
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The @pressfreedom calls on Yemen’s internationally recognized government to conduct an immediate, transparent investigation into Mohammed Aydah’s killing. Aydah, a correspondent for Saudi-owned channels Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath, was killed on Wednesday when an explosive device
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CPJ has documented Israel’s growing clampdown on foreign journalists whose reporting is critical of the Israeli government. CPJ spoke with six journalists who reported they were barred entry from Israel and the West Bank over past reporting on the West Bank, the use of terms like
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Israel revoked French freelance reporter Khadija Toufik’s travel authorization in January 2026. Like several other journalists interviewed by CPJ, she received only a brief notice citing “a change in circumstances.” Read more⤵️ cpj.org/2026/06/these-…
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“The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism accused me of antisemitism, supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and using terms such as ‘genocide’ and ‘massacre’ in my reports and comments regarding Gaza,” said Queralt Castillo Cerezuela, a
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