I wrote about this in more detail here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jodie-...

Every story today assumes Trump was the target of the attack at the WHCD last night (which I was at). That’s the most logical assumption. But a nagging part of my brain - the bit that deals daily with attacks on journalists - knows it’s not impossible the media might have been the target too.

@pressfreedom.bsky.social welcomes the news that journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been acquitted. Full details are still being ascertained but his international legal team confirms that he has been found innocent of the charges and he is expected to be released imminently. #freeahmed

#Kuwait says verdicts on a number of national security cases will be announced April 23 at 1pm (6am ET). Likely that Ahmed Shihab-Eldin's case will be among them. @pressfreedom.bsky.social reiterates our call for his immediate release. #freeahmed #journalismisnotacrime x.com/alraimediagr...

International lawyers for the sisters of detained journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin say they are "extremely concerned" for his safety and wellbeing in #Kuwait. "It is long past time for him to be released so he can come home to his family in the USA.” #freeahmed #freeahmedeldin #journalismisnotacrime

Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, who is serving a seven-year sentence on bogus espionage charges, marks his 64th birthday in prison today. A month ago, Dong was transferred from a prison in Beijing to another location further away from his family. cpj.org?p=580506

US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been detained in #Kuwait for 50 days. Journalism is not a crime — Kuwaiti authorities must #FreeAhmed now. Sign and share the petition ⤵️ cpj.movements.mov/pet/kuwait-r...

American journalist Ahmed Shihab Eldin has been in detention in Kuwait for more than six weeks. Help us keep attention on this case. Let #Kuwait know he must be freed immediately. Sign the petition! #freeahmed #freedahmedeldin #journalismisnotacrime cpj.movements.mov/pet/kuwait-r...

Award-winning journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been in Kuwaiti detention for over six weeks, apparently for posting images (taken and verified by other news sources) related to the war. Let #Kuwait know he must be freed now. #freeahmed #freeahmedeldin #journalismisnotacrime cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...

Award-winning US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been detained in Kuwait as authorities crack down on freedom of expression. We call on Kuwait to free him immediately. #freeahmed #freeahmedeldin #journalismisnotacrime cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...

Government-backed media concentration is a serious red flag for press freedom. cpj.org/2026/03/in-u...

More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since CPJ began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 129 journalists and media workers were killed, two-thirds of them by Israel. Read CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549

I spoke to the @financialtimes.com about press freedom under Trump. (TL;DR: Bleak) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Palestinian journalists describe being systematically abused, beaten and starved in Israel prisons, according to a new report published by @pressfreedom.bsky.social. Read more: cpj.org?p=562837

Publisher Jimmy Lai, founder of pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, sentenced to 20 years in prison. Lai, a British citizen, is 78. He will almost certainly die in prison unless the international community - especially the UK - does all it can to free him. cpj.org/2026/02/jimm...

U.S. Journalist Assistance Network Journalist safety in the US: Protecting data and devices. RSVP to the event on Zoom here: cpj-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Following escalating threats to the safety of journalists nationwide, CPJ and the International Women’s Media Foundation announced the launch of the U.S. Journalist Rapid Response Fund. The fund will debut in Minnesota with an initial contribution of $25,000 from CPJ and the IWMF. cpj.org?p=559776

"We’re past the fire alarm. We are at the fire." @pressfreedom.bsky.social has spent 40 years addressing authoritarian regimes' threats to journalists. For the last 12 months we have been applying everything we learned over those four decades in the United States. www.newsweek.com/don-lemon-ar...

Minnesota reporters recount ICE actions, community solidarity: ‘I know it’s going to be dangerous’ cpj.org?p=558564

Powerful piece from journalist Sheila Eldred on the challenges and importance of reporting from Minneapolis: "Never have I heard so much appreciation for what we do."

GEORGIA FORT: “Journalism is on trial. This should be alarming to the entire nation. I would ask every journalist: how did it feel to see your colleagues arrested for reporting the news?”

"Documenting what is happening in our community is not a crime." Georgia Fort, speaking just after her release from federal custody, is right. Journalism is not a crime. The free press is constitutionally protected-something the current administration wants to ignore. www.fox9.com/video/fmc-ae...

"To me this is a little aggressive to just serve a warrant." Watch this with the sound up. This is the kind of aggression experienced by journalists we work with in authoritarian and criminal regimes. We @pressfreedom.bsky.social stand with Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. #journalismisnotacrime

Our latest @pressfreedom.bsky.social statement on the arrest of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over their Minnesota protests coverage. As an international organization, we know that the treatment of journalists is a leading indicator of the condition of a country’s democracy... cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...

CPJ has warned about US press freedom for years.In April we said:"If we let the abnormal become normal, many more freedoms will be at risk–no matter what your politics”.The arrest of Lemon and Fort are a breach of their rights as journalists and an affront to all US citizens. cpj.org/special-repo...

📣 The U.S. government can’t control media content. 📺 Today, CPJ and @rsf.org are on site in Washington D.C. ahead of the Federal Communications Commission open commission meeting to call on Chair Brendan Carr to take politics out of the FCC.

"It’s so important to have a free press, and it’s nuts we aren’t paying more attention to it." We @pressfreedom.bsky.social agree. Thank you Jimmy Kimmel.

It’s literally the job of columnists to have opinions. Sacking them for expressing their views not only chills the individual’s speech but free speech in general.

Our statement on Israel's killing of more journalists in #Gaza. "Israel’s killing of journalists continues while the world watches and fails to act firmly on the most horrific attacks the press has faced in recent history,” said CPJ’s Sara Qudah. “These murders must end now.” cpj.org/2025/08/at-l...

US senators have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio following last week's assassination of six journalists by Israel: “The absence of US government support for accountability efforts serves to undermines U.S. moral leadership and credibility.” big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files...

Thinking of the remarkable journalist and editor Jose Rubén Zamora today on his 69th birthday, which he is unjustly spending behind bars for yet another year. We continue to demand his release. cpj.org/2025/07/guat...

As his health deteriorates in a Hong Kong jail, Jimmy Lai’s detention is now a test of Keir Starmer’s seriousness about human rights – and the government’s willingness to defend its citizens and values abroad. www.independent.co.uk/voices/jimmy...

In @independent.ie, @jodieginsberg.bsky.social & I argue the deliberate, systematic targeting of #Gaza’s journalists is not only an assault on individuals; it is an attack on truth & human rights. Ireland must do more, urgently, to protect Gaza’s journalists. ⬇️ www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

NEW: The Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas The 'Legitimization Cell' scoured Gaza for material to boost Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters. By Yuval Abraham www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

So much of what we know about starvation in Gaza is because of reporting by Anas Al-Sharif. Israel targeted and killed him and his entire crew while they were in a press tent outside a hospital. I spoke with @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, head of the CPJ @pressfreedom.bsky.social for @slate.com.

Israel is murdering Gaza's journalists - and it's no longer even hiding it. Me for @theguardian.com (they went with a different headline...). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The prevention of international access, the killings of journalists, the targeting of media facilities, the punishment of outlets like Haaretz are part of a deliberate strategy to conceal what is happening in Gaza. Me on the latest journalist killings by Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Our statement on the targeted killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif and colleagues: Israel is murdering the messengers. cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Israel just targeted and killed an entire news crew. This is not "just what happens" to reporters in war. Israel has killed more journalists in the 22 months since October 7 '23 than were killed WORLDWIDE in the 3 years between '20 and '22. This is murdering the messenger. cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Devastated to hear of the killing by Israel of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif. This is the latest killing of a journalist whom Israel alleges to be a terrorist without providing any credible proof. lnkd.in/efZXVJqK

I have been a reporter for 25 years. I know the risks reporting in war zones. This is not that situation. This is systematic silencing by Israel. If we do not act now, there will be no one left in Gaza to tell anyone’s story. Me today for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination. cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-...

I wrote about the uncomfortable press freedom parallels between Georgia, the country, and Georgia, the state. www.linkedin.com/pulse/mzia-m...

I spoke to Charles Sennott, founder of The GroundTruth Project and Report for America, about the threats facing the media in the United States - and how each individual attack might not feel worrying but when you add them together "what you've got is a juggernaut that's right in front of you."

Gaza is starving. Our colleagues trying to report what's happening there are starving. My colleague Sara Qudah wrote this on their plight over a month ago. The situation has only worsened. www.politico.eu/article/war-...

The number and size of lawsuits being issued against the media by the President is unprecedented and a clear attempt to undermine free speech protections ingrained in the Constitution. Press freedom is crucial for the public's right to know - and it's being strangled. www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/p...

This is a travesty for local media in the United States on which so many people still rely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Foreign journalists in the U.S. are self-censoring to protect themselves from the Trump administration www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

“Mzia, in your darkest moment we stand with you and we will not let go until you are free,” said CPJ’s @gypsyrights.bsky.social outside Women’s Prison where Mzia Amaglobeli is held. Reps from @globalfreemedia.bsky.social, @rsf.org & @pressfreedom.bsky.social visited prison site in act of solidarity

I wrote for the @inquirer.com about attacks on the press in the US - and why capitulation may seem to bring short term protection - but ultimately ends up laying the ground for more profound erosion of our ability to speak freely and, crucially, receive information.