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CPJ India Researcher Somi Das spoke to lawyer and founder of Internet Freedom Foundation Apar Gupta about the implications of a new tax law for journalists and the government’s expanding powers of media oversight. Read more👇

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NEW STATEMENT: ⚡As the U.S. government acted to curtail press freedom and free speech this week, Mario Guevara, the only journalist behind bars, faces the very real threat of deportation for doing his job and covering the news. #FreeMario cpj.org/2025/09/jour...

BREAKING: The Board of Immigration Appeals is trying to deport our client Mario Guevara, a journalist from El Salvador, despite his clear legal path to residency and an immigration judge's order to grant his release on bond.

URGENT ⚡️ Mario Guevara, the only journalist behind bars in the United States, faces imminent deportation following charges related to his live streaming of law enforcement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today marks one year since the death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchina in Russian captivity. CPJ continues to seek accountability for Roshchina’s killing and calls on Russian authorities to disclose the circumstances of her death. cpj.org/data/people/... 📷: Hromadske

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

See "Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud," a documentary about American filmmaker Renaud, killed in 2022 while covering the #RussiaUkraineWar. Joins us at the NYC premiere on 9/19, including a Q&A with filmmakers + CPJ's CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social👇 tinyurl.com/45audv53

Will you be in Johannesburg Nov. 5? Join us📣 CPJ’s Africa Regional Director Angela Quintal will give opening remarks at the Wits Centre for Journalism and CPJ co-hosted lecture, “Drafted, Censored, Exiled: Journalism Under Siege in Post-Coup Burkina Faso.” 📩RSVP: [email protected]

An independent media is vital for democracy. Access to information enables all people to make decisions and hold the powerful to account. A world without journalism is a world without truth. cpj.org/donate #JournalismMatters

Save the date! Press Play Prague returns on October 7-11. The festival brings together films that explore the challenges and impact of journalism, as well as the vital role it plays in society. Explore this year’s agenda: www.pressplayprague.cz

"CPJ is concerned by President Donald Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times. These types of defamation suits send a chilling message and can entangle news media in time-consuming and costly legal processes." — Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ's U.S., Canada and Caribbean Program Coordinator

"We are alarmed by reports that an incendiary device was found under a news media vehicle in Utah and are glad to see that local law enforcement has taken the threat seriously." — Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ's U.S., Canada, and Caribbean program coordinator

Israel is responsible for 85 of 124 journalist killings across the globe in 2024 — nearly 70% — the highest number by a single country in one year since CPJ began documenting this data more than three decades ago. Read more in CPJ’s #2024KilledReport: cpj.org?p=451429

Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law. Facilities and equipment utilized for reporting and disseminating news are also civilian structures. They must be respected and protected. Journalists are #NotATarget.

“Ultimately, stopping civilians from being killed will stop journalists being killed. At the grandest political level, that’s where this has to end,” writes Jon Allsop in the @columjournreview.bsky.social. Read the newsletter👇 www.cjr.org/the_media_to... 📷: AP

Globally, impunity remains entrenched, as no one is held to account in almost 80% of the cases where journalists have been directly targeted in retaliation for their work. Read more in CPJ’s 2024 Global #ImpunityIndex: cpj.org/2024/10/cpj-... #EndImpunity

Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh has spent more than a year imprisoned in Iran, enduring severe psychological torment and relentless interrogations for the simple fact that he is a journalist. CPJ spoke to his Iran-based brother about the journalist’s life in prison. More⤵️

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"We are glad to see that a U.S. judge in Los Angeles imposed restrictions on federal agents' use of less-lethal munitions against journalists, who should be able to cover the news, including protests, without fear of being attacked by law enforcement."

📣Announcing CPJ’s International Press Freedom 2025 awardees! Journalists are at risk like never before and yet their work has never been more important. This year we will honor: Dong Yuyu Elvira del Pilar Nole and Juan Carlos Tito Bolot Temirov Sonia Dahmani Read more: cpj.org?p=517788 #IPFA2025

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its media has experienced an unprecedented crackdown. Read about the dire #pressfreedom situation and the transnational repression targeting exiled journalists:

South Africa is typically seen as a regional beacon of press freedom. However, recent attempts to gag journalists via court orders have raised concerns. CPJ investigated this troubling trend. Read more👇

An independent media is vital for democracy. Access to information enables all people to make decisions and hold the powerful to account. A world without journalism is a world without truth. cpj.org/donate #JournalismMatters

Join our team! CPJ is currently #hiring a mission-aligned Senior Director of People and Culture with both strategic vision and strong execution skills to lead our human resources function. This role is a hybrid position based in New York City. Apply today: www.dsgco.com/search/22475...

Radio Azattyq director Torokul Doorov says it is very difficult for journalists not to become activists in the face of unfairness and injustice in Kazakhstan. Read more:

At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza cpj.org/full-coverag...

Journalist Dil Bhusan Pathak could face up to five years in prison for alleging on his YouTube channel that Jaiveer Singh Deuba, the son of two powerful Nepalese politicians, was linked to questionable deals involving the new Hilton Kathmandu. Read more:

Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law. Facilities and equipment utilized for reporting and disseminating news are also civilian structures. They must be respected and protected. Journalists are #NotATarget.

CPJ calls for an independent investigation into Israel’s killing of five journalists by multiple strikes on Nasser Hospital in #Gaza.🚨The press cannot function under fire. When journalists die without answers, truth dies with them. Read more: cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...

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To mark the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, CPJ and MISA Mozambique are calling on authorities to account for the whereabouts of Arlindo Chissale and Ibraimo Abú Mbaruco, two journalists who went missing under similar circumstances. cpj.org?p=508794 #MissingNotForgotten

Ahead of National Press Freedom Day in the Philippines on August 30, CPJ and partners have called on the country’s president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and his administration to immediately release journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio as her trial nears its conclusion. cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...

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CPJ joined the legal effort by @rcfp.org and partners to support the Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk whose visa was revoked in retaliation for an op-ed she co-wrote in March 2024. Read more👇 cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...

CPJ calls for an independent investigation into Monday’s killing of five journalists by multiple Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in #Gaza.🚨 The press cannot function under fire. When journalists die without answers, truth dies with them. Read more: cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...

Journalist Mario Guevara remains in detention after a judge requested more information in a federal court hearing Wednesday in which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petitioned for his immediate release. Read more: cpj.org/2025/08/cour...

Today is a good day to #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼. ➤ Journalist #MarioGuevara has been detained for over 70 days. ➤ He is the only journalist imprisoned in the U.S. ➤ He faces no charges and resides legally in the U.S. ➤ ICE keeps him imprisoned for livestreaming law enforcement. cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...

Join our team! CPJ is currently #hiring a mission-aligned Senior Director of People and Culture with both strategic vision and strong execution skills to lead our human resources function. This role is a hybrid position based in New York City. Apply today: www.dsgco.com/search/22475...

Correction: The post below should refer to five killed journalists, not six.

An independent media is vital for democracy. Access to information enables all people to make decisions and hold the powerful to account. A world without journalism is a world without truth. cpj.org/donate #JournalismMatters

“There needs to be justice,” Thameen Al-Kheetan, the spokesperson for the UN’s human rights office, told reporters on Tuesday in Geneva. Human rights office demands that Israeli investigation into ‘double tap’ attack that killed 20 people yields results. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

CPJ joined 71 other press freedom and human rights organizations in a joint letter calling on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to secure UK citizen and 77-year-old publisher Jimmy Lai’s release on medical grounds.

CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social spoke with @cnn.com's Becky Anderson about Israel’s strikes on Nasser Hospital that killed five journalists in Gaza today. Watch👇

“Frankly, I’m losing words to describe the horror of this. The worst conflict for journalists that CPJ has ever documented, and the abject failure of the international community to do anything to address it,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @aljazeera.com. More⤵️ cpj.org/2025/08/at-l...

We are shocked by the killing of several journalists, rescue workers, and other civilians in an Israeli airstrike on the Nasser Hospital in #Gaza. This attack must be investigated. 1/2

“Israel’s broadcasted killing of journalists in #Gaza continues while the world watches and fails to act firmly on the most horrific attacks the press has ever faced in recent history. These murders must end now." — CPJ’s Regional Director Sara Qudah cpj.org?p=508077

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