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CPJ Insider: Year-end edition
Your support this year helped sustain CPJ’s work and mission at a time when journalists across the globe face threats while doing their jobs. Thank you for being a friend and partner throughout 2022 in defending our right to be informed. For this edition of Insider, we’re including just a few of the highlights from this year that were possible because of your support.
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Police at a court in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 14, 2020. Three YouTube-based Iwacu TV journalists detained since October 2018, were acquitted and released on October 5, 2022. (Reuters/Jean Bizimana)
CPJ helped free at least 130 journalists in 2022
This year, CPJ advocacy contributed to the early release of at least 130 detained journalists, including dozens in Africa and dozens more in the Middle East and North Africa. Learn more »
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 We helped win convictions in the murders of at least 12 journalists
CPJ has documented the killing of at least 65 journalists and media workers in 2022, making this year a particularly dangerous one for those trying to bring us the news. Of those, 40 were killed in relation to their work, and CPJ is investigating the circumstances of an additional 25 to determine whether they were work-related. Learn more »
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 We helped protect threatened journalists
As Russian troops amassed along the border of Ukraine, CPJ worked to disburse crucial safety advice for journalists covering the conflict. Almost as soon as the war began, attacks on journalists made clear a need for personal protective equipment (PPE) and first aid supplies. Learn more »
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Must-reads
Reflecting on three months of protests and “a women-led revolution” in Iran, Yeganeh Rezaian, a senior researcher at CPJ, writes: “Some journalists, like my friend Yalda Moaiery, are kept in solitary confinement, in conditions I know only too well from my own experience ... The cells are tiny, there is no furniture, only a thin blanket for sleeping, the lights are turned on 24 hours a day, and there is no company but your own thoughts.”
Beril Eski, a lawyer and journalist, spoke on CPJ’s behalf to Turkey’s longest-serving jailed journalist, Hatice Duman, about her conviction, life in prison, and hope of returning to journalism in an interview. Duman remains at the Bakırköy Women’s Prison in Istanbul. Asked if she wants to practice journalism again, Duman replied, “I would want to practice journalism very much. … I would do things that I have missed the most when I’m out. Unless my family locks me in … I would be me when I get out, as I am here. I cannot stand inequity and injustice.”
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CPJ in the news
“Covering Iran’s unrest and crackdown from thousands of miles away,” The Washington Post
“Visual Storytellers and Journalists Face Growing Risks. What Can Funders Do to Protect Them?” Inside Philanthropy
“A Member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council Explains Why She Got Fed Up and Quit,” Slate
“Us Soccer Briefly Scrubs Emblem From Iran Flag At World Cup,” The Associated Press
“Sicarios Tried to Kill Famous Mexican Journalist Ciro Gómez-Leyva,” VICE
"Governments around the world jailing record number of journalists: Committee to Protect Journalists,” The Hindu
“Twitter suspends journalist accounts without explanation, angering lawmakers and those affected,” Politico
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