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CPJ Insider: July edition
CPJ opens the Knight Foundation Press Freedom Center
CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Alberto
Ibargüen speaks to CPJ supporters, staff, and friends at the
grand opening of our new press freedom center in New York. (CPJ)
CPJ opens the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Press Freedom
Center in New York
In early June, CPJ held its grand opening of The John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation Press Freedom Center, the site of our global
headquarters in New York. The new space will serve as a convening hub
for press freedom advocacy and research. Learn more »
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CPJ president presents DW award for free speech
CPJ president presents DW award to Ukrainian journalists
German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) held its annual Global
Media Forum gathering journalists, activists, and government
officials to foster resilient journalism and civil society, especially
in times of conflict. Learn more »
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Michael De Dora speaks in front of Saudi Embassy
CPJ joins the naming ceremony for Jamal Khashoggi Way in front of the
Saudi Embassy
Years of advocacy work came to fruition as CPJ and Democracy for the
Arab World Now (DAWN), a nonprofit founded by Khashoggi-along with
other partner organizations-unveiled new street signs for Jamal
Khashoggi Way in June. Learn more »
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HBO documentary highlights press freedom
CPJ collaborates with HBO, Ronan Farrow, and Loki Films on
just-released documentary
For more than two years, CPJ partnered closely with directors Rachel
Grady and Heidi Ewing on journalist and executive producer Ronan
Farrow's new HBO documentary, "Endangered." Learn
more »
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Must-reads
In a letter to the Biden administration, CPJ is demanding a U.S.-led
independent and transparent investigation of the killing of
Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. CPJ President Jodie
Ginsberg writes, "more than one month after Abu Akleh's
killing,
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only journalists have carried out serious probes of the
incident." Ginsberg also used the opportunity to remind Biden of
his own words promoting press freedom on World Press Freedom Day and
that his administration is not bound to the "norms set by
previous administrations."
Through a partnership with CPJ and other press freedom groups, a
recent hearing of "The People's Tribunal,"-which hosts a
series of staged trials with real experts and real witnesses-
included explosive new testimony from Nishantha Silva, a detective who
says the
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Sri Lankan president was complicit in the 2009 killing of journalist
Lasantha Wickrematunge. "It seemed obvious to observers," CPJ Asia
Program Coordinator Steven Butler writes, "as Wickrematunge himself
pointed out just before he was killed, that only government officials
would have had a motive to go after him."
CPJ spoke with two reporters-Guillermo Contreras from the San
Antonio Express-News and Zach Despart from the Texas Tribune-in
the wake of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,
Texas. The journalists detail how
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authorities' efforts to impede the free flow of information have made
it increasingly difficult to do their work. "To have police come along
and tell us that you will get arrested for doing your job," Contreras
told CPJ, "that's troubling to me."
CPJ in the news
"Al Jazeera obtains image of bullet that killed its journalist
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"Zimbabwe court convicts reporter for The New York Times
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"'Jamal Khashoggi Way': Washington renames Saudi embassy
street
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"Media Arrests 'Reverberate' Across Ethiopian Newsrooms
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," VOA
"How police treatment of journalists at protests has shifted
from cohabitation to animosity
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," Poynter
"Ukrainian photojournalists: 'There is a lot that people don't
know about Ukraine's war
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"Dom Phillips' alleged murder highlights dangers of
environmental journalism
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"New Hong Kong government includes 4 officials sanctioned by
U.S.
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," The Epoch Times
"'Please leave. They're going to kill you': No freedom of
the press in Russia
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