Committee to Protect Journalists

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Committee to Protect Journalists
AbbreviationCPJ
Formation1981;44 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
Coordinates 40°44′52″N73°59′36″W / 40.74769°N 73.99327°W / 40.74769; -73.99327
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 501(c)(3) nonprofit 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 published an annual census of journalists killed or imprisoned in relation to their work. [7]

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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. [8] Its founding honorary chairman was Walter Cronkite. [8] Since 1991, it has held the annual CPJ International Press Freedom Awards Dinner, [8] during which awards are given to journalists and press freedom advocates who have received beatings, threats, intimidation, and prison for reporting the news.

Since 1992, the organization has compiled an annual list of all journalists killed in the line of duty around the world. [9] 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. [9]

In 2008, the organization launched an annual "Impunity Index" of countries in which journalists are murdered and the killers are not prosecuted. [10]

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 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. [11] The ban was overturned and CPJ was granted consultative status in July 2016. [12]

In October 2016, the Committee broke with its tradition of staying out of politics and warned about the danger it perceived Donald Trump posed to press freedom in the United States and around the world. [13]

In June 2017, U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte was convicted of criminal assault in state court stemming from his assault of The Guardian political reporter Ben Jacobs the previous month. [14] [15] [16] 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. [17] [18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Charity Navigator - IRS Data for Committee to Protect Journalists". Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Committee to Protect Journalists names Jodie Ginsberg as its new president". 10 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Robertson, Katie (9 June 2021). "The head of the Committee to Protect Journalists offers a warning as he prepares to step down". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  4. ↑ Jim Romenesko (June 7, 2006) "Poynter Online Forums" (Archived 14 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine ). Poynter Institute.
  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.
  7. ↑ "Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Report". CivilsDaily. 16 December 2022. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. ↑ "Israel, Haiti top CPJ list of states where journalist murders go unpunished". Al Jazeera. 30 October 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "Press freedom watchdog denied UN credentials". The Times of Israel . Archived from the original on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  12. ↑ "U.N. body overturns rejection, accredits press freedom watchdog". Reuters. 25 July 2016. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  13. ↑ Sullivan, Margaret (10 September 2023). "How the Committee to Protect Journalists broke with tradition to protest Trump". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  14. ↑ Marcos, Cristina (21 June 2017). "Gianforte Causes Stir After Becoming Newest House Member". The Hill . Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  15. ↑ Kyung Lah, Noa Yadidi and Carma Hassan (12 June 2017). "Gianforte pleads guilty to assault in incident with reporter". CNN. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  16. ↑ Andrews, Natalie (12 June 2017). "Incoming GOP Congressman Greg Gianforte Pleads Guilty to Assault on Reporter". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  17. ↑ "Congressman-elect Gianforte apologizes to reporter for assault, to donate $50,000 to press group". ABC News. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  18. ↑ Feinberg, Ashley. "A Crucial New Site Tracks Attacks on Press in the US". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
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