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CPJ Insider: November edition
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A boy holds a portrait of Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah during a protest in front of the United Nations headquarters in Beirut. Abdallah was killed by an Israeli shell on Lebanon’s southern border. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
‘Journalists in Gaza are facing exponential risk:’ a look at CPJ’s response to the war
The world is watching in horror the unfolding events in the Israel-Gaza war. Working closely with our partners in the region, CPJ is documenting press freedom violations—with scores of journalists killed, assaulted, detained, threatened, and censored. For this issue of Insider, we wanted to point you to some of the incredible reporting our Middle East and North Africa team has done since October 7. Learn more »
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 CPJ releases its 2023 Annual Report
This year’s 2023 annual report highlights our efforts to help journalists through awareness, advocacy, and assistance—the three-pronged approach CPJ is taking, alongside our strategic plan, to ensure journalists can bring us the news safely and without fear of reprisal. Learn more »
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 Where killers get away with murder: CPJ releases its 2023 Global Impunity Index
CPJ released its annual index documenting where killers get away with the murder of journalists. This year’s index finds that during the 10-year period between September 1, 2013 and August 31, 2023, no-one has been held to account in 204 journalist murders—more than 78%—of these cases. Learn more »
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 A Death in Malta: new book from son of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
A new book, A Death in Malta, narrates the life of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The book covers her riveting, inspiring life and death and her family’s crusade to hold accountable those responsible for her assassination. A story Daphne that would have been proud to have written, it is told powerfully and intimately by her son, the award-winning journalist Paul Caruana Galizia. Learn more »
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Must-read
From Guatemala to Turkey, CPJ spoke with journalists' lawyers who have faced retaliation around the world. From harassment to surveillance and even imprisonment, when lawyers for reporters start facing the same kinds of threats as their clients, it creates an environment of censorship that harms citizens’ ability to stay informed about what is happening in their countries. "When journalists can’t have access to lawyers, they’re kind of left on their own," Doreen Weisenhaus, a media law expert at Northwestern University, told CPJ.
CPJ's new timeline illustrates the 35-year road to justice for murdered journalist Hugo Bustíos Saavedra. Killed in 1988, CPJ and other press freedom groups tried for years to pressure Peru’s government to investigate Bustíos’ murder, including efforts to censure the Peruvian government. Former army general Daniel Urresti Elera was convicted in April and sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking part in the killing. "Justice has been done,” Sharmelí Bustíos Patiño, the journalist’s daughter, said on X (formerly Twitter) on the day Urresti was sentenced. “The road has been hard and painful. Today all that remains is to give thanks.”
The August 2023 death of Russian mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin made headlines around the world. To press freedom observers, the death was notable for another reason: It could open doors to long-stalled efforts for justice for three Russian journalists—Orkhan Dzhemal, Kirill Radchenko, and Aleksandr Rastorguyev—killed as they set out to investigate the mercenary’s work in the Central African Republic in 2018. “The most important thing," a representative from the Dossier Center, a London-based nonprofit that has investigated the killings, told CPJ, "is that the families know who killed their loved ones and that they are punished. Despite the pain that will never end, justice will give them some solace.”
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CPJ in the news
“What the NewsClick Raid Says About Declining Press Freedom in India,” Time
“'Everyone's a War Reporter': the Journalists Covering the Israel-Hamas Conflict,” VOA
“‘I’m living the story’: Gaza journalists risk their lives to deliver the news,” Financial Times
“When journalists are killed in Gaza, more lives are at stake,” The Los Angeles Times
“Russian-American journalist charged in Russia with failing to register as a ‘foreign agent’,” The Associated Press
“Across Africa, journalists must increasingly navigate internet shutdowns,” Tribune Online
“Media freedom groups call for press safety, justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia,” Times of Malta
“The Deadly Toll of Reporting From Gaza and Israel,” WNYC’s On the Media
“It’s becoming impossible to report from Gaza,” The Washington Post
“President of Committee to Protect Journalists talks about Israel-Hamas war,” Spectrum News NY1
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