People read newspapers on display in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on March 18, 2021. (Reuters).
CPJ returns to Tanzania
Four years ago, our colleagues–CPJ’s Africa program coordinator Angela Quintal and CPJ's sub-Saharan Africa representative Muthoki Mumo–were suddenly detained by Tanzanian intelligence during a mission to the country to survey the press freedom situation. Last month, Mumo returned to Tanzania for World Press Freedom Day to speak with journalists on the ground. Learn more »
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 Leica Camera, CPJ, and ACOS Alliance offer remote safety clinics
During Photoville, an annual, open air photography festival in New York City, CPJ is partnering with the ACOS Alliance and Leica Camera to offer free, expert one-on-one safety advice remotely to freelance photojournalists and documentary photographers. Learn more »
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Must-reads
In a Q&A with Shatha Hanaysha, a correspondent for news website Ultra Palestine and a contributor to regional news website Middle East Eye, CPJ gets her perspective on the final moments of Shireen Abu Akleh's life and on the way Abu Akleh had inspired her. “When I was young, my family members would tell me to ‘talk like Shireen.’ When I was asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ I often answered, ‘I want to be a journalist like Shireen.’”
CPJ spoke with Sanaa Seif, the sister of imprisoned journalist Alaa Abdelfattah, while she was touring the U.S. to promote her brother's book, "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated," a collection of his writing that includes essays, tweets, and letters smuggled out of prison. "When I last visited Alaa in prison," she told CPJ, "he told me that he was very happy about this book getting published. The reason for him being in prison is to imprison his voice, so since the book is out, his voice is out too."
CPJ spoke with Wojciech Ciesla, the co-founder and president of Fundacja Reporterów, which is running a hotline for journalists in need of logistical support to leave Ukraine. Those humanitarian efforts were driven by a recognition that the threat to Ukraine's existence is also a threat to Poland: There’s a Polish saying, Cielsa said, “If you live in Poland, you never smile at the circus”—meaning that the bear, Russia, could lunge toward you at any moment.
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