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CPJ Insider: April edition
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Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka points at the smoke
rising after an airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022
(AP/Mstyslav Chernov).
CPJ on Ukraine: How the situation for journalists has changed
One month ago, we spoke with Gulnoza Said, CPJ's Europe and
Central Asia program coordinator, about what to expect for journalists
as Russia invaded Ukraine. Now, after a month of fighting, Said speaks
on how the situation has changed for journalists covering the
war-and what CPJ has been doing to help them. Learn more
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Manuel Duran
Manuel Duran, journalist who fled El Salvador years ago, granted
asylum
Following years of legal battles facing deportation, journalist Manuel
Duran Ortega was granted asylum in the United States. Duran fled to
the U.S. in 2006 after receiving death threats for his work as a
television reporter in El Salvador, and a year later received a
deportation order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE). Learn more »
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Must-reads
Earlier this month, CPJ joined 57 other civil society groups
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in calling for the U.S. Congress to reauthorize and strengthen the
Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which could be used
to apply sanctions on human rights abusers, including those
responsible for "the grim horrors unleashed on the civilian
population" in Ukraine.
CPJ's former executive director, Ann Cooper, who was also NPR's Moscow
bureau chief in the early 90s, takes a close look at Vladimir Putin's
22-year fight against media freedom
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in Russia--all the way back to a quarter-century old CPJ report which
showed "ominous signs that independent journalism faces a bleak future
under the Putin regime."
CPJ spoke with 4 journalists covering the war in Ukraine
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about the physical and emotional toll their work can take. "I had so
many different internal reactions," says Oleksandr Ratushnyak, a
Ukrainian freelance photographer, "...panic, fear, danger, [the need
for] security and protection, pain, anger, love. War exacerbates many
feelings."
CPJ in the news
"Ethiopia urged to uphold press freedom and release reporter
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," ABC News
"For journalists, Ukraine is a WhatsApp war
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," Columbia Journalism Review
"Rights watchdog condemns Taliban for detaining journalists
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," Arab News
"Russia's Novaya Gazeta Suspends Publication After
Warnings
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," VOA News
"Rival Networks Aided Fox News After Ukraine Tragedy,
Highlighting War-Zone Collaboration
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," The Wall Street Journal
"Russian Journalist Flees Country Amid Pressure From Officials
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," RFE/RL
"ICE Is Creating A New Policy For Subpoenaing Reporters After
Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Turn Over Information
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," BuzzFeed News
"For Iranian journalist Mohammad Mosaed, exile was a last
resort, but silence is not an option
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," The Globe and Mail
One month ago, we spoke with Gulnoza Said, CPJ's Europe and
Central Asia program coordinator, about what to expect for journalists
as Russia invaded Ukraine. Now, after a month of fighting, Said speaks
on how the situation has changed for journalists covering the
war-and what CPJ has been doing to help them.
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