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CPJ Insider: Crisis in Afghanistan

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Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August. (AP/Rahmat
Gul)

Since Afghanistan fell under the control of the Taliban, CPJ has been
deeply concerned for the safety of hundreds of local journalists and
media workers. We have devoted our resources to helping and supporting
them, even as some are already being targeted by the Taliban.

We continue to urge the United States to ensure the safety of the
Afghan media by facilitating safe passage out of the country and
providing emergency visas. Meanwhile, we are also working to
help support the evacuations of Afghan and other journalists and
are coordinating with our partners and with governments to do so.
Many of the journalists who are under threat in the country are women,
whose record of reporting on women's rights has exacerbated
the risk they face.

In mid-August, CPJ secured a grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association that we used to increase our capacity to do this
work. We have hired consultants to help us process and register
journalists and help us address emergency requests.

But there is still a lot of work to be done.

Today, five years after it was formed, CPJ's Emergencies team
knows exactly what is needed. The team, which is made up of experts in
physical and digital safety who work in tandem with our regional staff
and global correspondents, provides comprehensive, life-saving support
to journalists working in hostile environments of unparalleled risk.

Here, we asked CPJ Emergencies Director Maria Salazar Ferro about
CPJ's efforts to support journalists in Afghanistan.

What is CPJ doing to help Afghan journalists?

CPJ has been working throughout the year to support Afghan
journalists, but of course the past three weeks have seen an
escalation in our efforts. We are trying every available avenue at
this point to see if we can find safe passage for journalists,
which is the most urgent need. We're working with a coalition
of media partners and with governments-including the U.S.,
Canada, Qatar, Ireland, Mexico, Germany, France, Colombia, and
Pakistan-to find ways we can help. And, of course, we're
working with international bodies like the United Nations with a
focus on finding safe passage and finding ways that journalists can be
safe.

Working with media organizations and governments, we have helped
support hundreds of evacuations and have directly organized dozens of
them ourselves. At this point, we have supported at least 30
journalists and their families and have helped them leave the
country. We have registered and vetted more than 400 journalists and
have received thousands of emergency requests from others, which
we are doing our best to process.

Do you think CPJ will be able to help all of the journalists under
threat in Kabul?

CPJ's Emergencies team and the organization as a whole are
committed to helping journalists-not only in Kabul but also
those who are working in or have worked in Afghanistan. We are finding
additional ways to support those who have managed to
leave-and to support those who remain. 

These journalists have put their lives at risk to tell the story of
Afghanistan. We know it is vital to help them continue to report
the news and inform both Afghans and the international community about
what's going on inside their country.

But will all journalists get out? That's our goal. I don't know if
it's going to be possible, but we're working as hard as we can.

What do you see as the future of a free press in Afghanistan?

We don't have a crystal ball. The Taliban has made a lot of
promises about allowing journalists to continue to work and
allowing a free press to continue to exist, and they seem committed to
changing their international image, so we will hold them accountable
to the things they have said.

But given their track record with journalists-even in the past
few weeks-I'm doubtful that the Afghan media will
continue to be what it was just two months ago. But then again, seeing
the amazing courage and resilience of the journalists we've
been working with over the past month in Afghanistan, I
don't think this fight is over. I think there are people
seriously committed to continuing to report in Afghanistan, but I
think it's going to be different. It's not going to be what it was.

What do you wish people knew about the work CPJ is doing?

[Pause.] I can honestly say that I have never seen anything like this
in the more than 15 years I've worked at CPJ.

I can see the very bad parts of this-the hundreds of journalists
who have contacted us for help and their disbelief at what feels like
the international community leaving them behind. But the flipside of
the coin is very awesome, in the literal sense of the word.
Everyone has come together as a community to help Afghan
journalists. Everyone at CPJ-everyone-has joined this
effort. Our correspondent in Nairobi was staying up till 2 in the
morning to make calls. We had people helping from Colombia and Spain.
Everyone was working to make sure we could get information out of
Afghanistan and into Afghanistan.

I'm also amazed by the wider community of foreign journalists,
media outlets, and our partner organizations, all of whom are
going to great lengths to make sure none of their colleagues are
left behind. It's been incredible to see simultaneously
such devastation and this collective of people who are willing to
help simply because they believe that these journalists need support
so they can tell a story that needs to be told.

I mean it. I have never, ever seen anything like this.

A lot of people want to help. What do you suggest they do?

Please consider donating to CPJ. As I said, our entire staff is
working to support Afghan journalists, and your donation helps our
efforts to do so.

Pulitzer Prize Board announces support for CPJ

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced

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 early Friday that it had issued a special citation for Afghan
journalists, "courageous Afghan residents [who] helped produce
Pulitzer-winning and Pulitzer-worthy images and stories that have
contributed to a wider understanding of profoundly tragic and
complicated circumstances."

In support of the journalists' safety, the board said, it was
awarding CPJ a grant. "It's critical in a moment of stark
threat to support those Afghans whose bravery, skill, and commitment
to the ideals of a free press have helped create so much important
journalism in recent decades," Board Co-Chairs Katherine Boo,
Gail Collins, and John Daniszewski said. 

CPJ is grateful for the grant and will use the funds to support Afghan
journalists who have been forced to flee and need to be
resettled. Learn more »
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Must-reads

PBS NewsHour correspondent Jane Ferguson, on the ground in Kabul,
tells CPJ

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about how she's navigating the dangers in the country-and
how this is the most complex and fast-changing conflict situation
she has ever faced. 

A Q&A with CPJ's Asia program staff
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reveals the specific threats to journalists in Afghanistan and
the dangers that they are facing in their attempts to get out of
the country following the takeover by the Taliban. 

Citing deep concern for hundreds of Afghan journalists under
threat from the Taliban, CPJ called

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on the U.S. government to do more to ensure their
safety. "The U.S. has a special responsibility to Afghan
journalists ... who covered events in their country for
international media," said CPJ Executive Director Joel
Simon. 

CPJ in the news

"How the CPJ is fighting to help Afghan journalists flee the
Taliban

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," Press Gazette

"What the U.S. can do to save the lives of Afghan journalists,

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" The Washington Post

"'They're really sitting ducks': Refugee
advocates inundated with pleas for help from vulnerable Afghans

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," USA Today

"The Washington Post publisher asks Biden administration to help
evacuate 204 journalists, support staff, and families from Kabul

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," CNN

"'Their lives in peril': Journalists are getting
caught up in the chaos of Afghanistan's swift collapse

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," Vanity Fair

"On Day 3 under the Taliban, hundreds of Afghan journalists are
still trying to flee

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," NPR

"News groups seek to protect journalists in Afghanistan

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," The Associated Press

"Taliban to Media: Don't broadcast anything contradicting
Islamic values

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," Next TV

"Major newspapers push to get workers out of Afghanistan

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," The Wall Street Journal

"How to help Afghan refugees

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," CNN Impact Your World

"How people in the US can help arriving Afghans

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," ABC

"How to help Afghan refugees and those trapped during the Taliban
takeover

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," The Washington Post

"HFPA donates half-million dollars for relief efforts for Haiti
and Afghanistan

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," Audacy




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