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CPJ Insider: June edition
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Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, founder of El
Periodico newspaper, arrives for a court hearing in Guatemala City in
May 2024. (AP/Moises Castillo)
CPJ welcomes journalist releases, calls for all charges to be dropped
After a court ordered José Rubén Zamora to house arrest
on May 15, the journalist told The Associated Press, "I have to
face justice because I can defend myself... I am innocent." As
CPJ awaits Zamora's full release, we have called on
"authorities to immediately drop all charges against
him." Learn more »
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Spotlight on Giving: DADA Goldberg
CPJ supporters Defne Aydintasbas (left) and Rebecca Goldberg Brodsky
(right) are the Co-Founders of DADA Goldberg, a strategic public
relations agency, which has grown to become the premier communications
for the design field. In March, they visited CPJ's New York
headquarters at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Press
Freedom Center with their team to learn more about our
work. Learn more »
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CPJ spoke with Gaza journalist Shrouq Al Aila from Rafah, where she is
sheltering with her 11-month old daughter, Dania, after her husband,
Roshdi Sarraj, the founder of production company Ain Media, was killed
in an Israeli airstrike. As she takes up the mantle of Ain Media, she
hopes her message will be heard: "
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We as journalists talked about everything. We filmed everything. It is
now time for foreign correspondents to come and cover the war. We
don't have any more words."
CPJ staff prepared an in-depth analysis of the difficulty in
documenting press freedom violations in Gaza as journalists are
killed, arrested, or missing. From the loss of local sources,
precarious living conditions, the absence of foreign journalists,
communications blackouts, administrative detentions, and a fear of
retribution that transcends borders, "
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Collecting and vetting this information is now taking us weeks or
months, and in some cases won't be possible at all," said
CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna.
CPJ spoke with eight Serbian journalists and advocates, some of whom
have left the country out of fear for their safety, to understand a
deteriorating situation for journalists under populist President
Aleksandar Vu?i?'s administration. "
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It's hard to deal mentally with this level of daily
harassment," one journalist who spoke on the condition of
anonymity told CPJ, "with blackmail, threats, stalking, or even
unknown people desecrating my mother's tomb."
CPJ in the news
"'Unimaginably difficult' being a journalist in
Gaza: Committee to Protect Journalists CEO," CNN
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"Our freedoms depend on press freedom," Project
Syndicate
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"'I watch my back': Spike in BBC World Service
journalists working in exile," BBC
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"Amid increasing pressure, journalists in India practice more
self-censorship," Al Jazeera
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"Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel
counterprotesters on campus," The Los Angeles Times
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"China erases memory of 'white paper' protests in
further threat to journalism," The Guardian
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"Protect journalists, everywhere," The New York Times
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"Press Freedom Day with Muthoki Mumo CPJ's Africa program
coordinator," VOA
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"Israel has shut down an Associated Press live camera position
in Israel overlooking Gaza," Al Jazeera
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"Ethnic strife is tearing Ethiopia apart, but America can help
end it," The Hill
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