Committee to Protect Journalists

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Committee to Protect Journalists
AbbreviationCPJ
Formation1981;43 years ago (1981)
Type 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [1]
13-3081500
Purpose Press freedom, journalist human rights and safety of journalists
Headquarters New York City, New York
Location
  • US
Region served
International
President
 Jodie Ginsberg (2022-present) [2]
Joel Simon (2006-2021) [3]
Ann Cooper (1998-2006) [4] [5]
Affiliations International Freedom of Expression Exchange
Website cpj.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-governmental organization based in New York City, with correspondents around the world. CPJ promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists. The American Journalism Review has called the organization, "Journalism's Red Cross." [6] Since the late 1980s, CPJ has been publishing an annual census of journalists killed or imprisoned in relation to their work. [7] [8]

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History and programs

The Committee to Protect Journalists was founded in 1981 in response to the harassment of Paraguayan journalist Alcibiades González Delvalle. [9] Its founding honorary chairman was Walter Cronkite. [9] Since 1991, it has held the annual CPJ International Press Freedom Awards Dinner, [9] during which awards are given to journalists and press freedom advocates who have endured beatings, threats, intimidation, and prison for reporting the news.

Since 1987, it has published an annual worldwide survey of press freedom called Attacks on the Press. [10]

Since 1992, the organization has compiled an annual list of all journalists killed in the line of duty around the world. [11] For 2017, it reported that 46 journalists had been killed in connection with their work, as compared to 48 in 2016, and 72 in 2015, and that of those journalists killed, 18 had been murdered. [11] A running total of journalists killed over the entire period from 1992 is available on the group's website, as well as the statistics for any given year; as of April 2018 the total was 1285. [12] The organization's figures are typically lower than similar ongoing counts by Reporters Without Borders or the International Federation of Journalists because of CPJ's established parameters and confirmation process. [13] It also publishes an annual census of imprisoned journalists. [14]

Between 2001 and 2008, it published a biannual magazine, Dangerous Assignments. [15] [ non-primary source needed ]

In 2008, the organization launched an annual "Impunity Index" of countries in which journalists are murdered and the killers are not prosecuted. [16] [17]

The organization is a founding member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), a global network of more than seventy non-governmental organizations that monitors free-expression violations around the world and defends journalists, writers, and others persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression. In May 2016, A United Nations committee voted to deny consultative status to CPJ, primarily led by countries with poor press freedom like China, Sudan and Russia. [18] The ban was overturned and CPJ was granted consultative status in July 2016. [19]

In October 2016, the Committee broke with its tradition of staying out of politics and warned about the danger Donald Trump posed to press freedom in the United States and around the world. [20]

In June 2017, US Representative Greg Gianforte was convicted of criminal assault in state court stemming from his assault of The Guardian political reporter Ben Jacobs in May 2017. [21] [22] [23] As a stipulation of his settlement with Jacobs, Gianforte donated $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which said it would use the funds to support the new U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. [24] [25]

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  2. ↑ "Committee to Protect Journalists names Jodie Ginsberg as its new president". 10 January 2022.
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  5. ↑ "Ann Cooper on the arrest of Raman Pratasevich in Belarus". Shorenstein Center. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  6. ↑ Ricchiardi, Sherry (December 1997). "Journalism's Red Cross – Under-Staffed and Low-Profile, the Committee to Protect Journalists Rides to the Rescue of Reporters and Editors Who Run Afoul of Governments Hostile to the Press". American Journalism Review . Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
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  8. ↑ "Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Report". CivilsDaily. 16 December 2022. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  9. 1 2 3 "Committee to Protect Journalists records, 1978-2008". Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "Attacks on the Press in 2023". Committee to Protect Journalists. 15 February 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  11. 1 2 Gladstone, Rick (19 December 2016). "Fewer Journalists Were Killed on the Job This Year, Group Reports Archived 11 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine ". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
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