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.

CPJ condemns the decision by ICE not to comply with a federal immigration judge order that granted bail to journalist Mario Guevara, who was originally arrested on First Amendment-related charges. Those charges were dropped on June 25. CPJ calls for Guevara’s immediate release. cpj.org?p=494636

This is a major blow for press freedom in the United States - a major news outlet caving to groundless threats from the President over coverage www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Deeply concerning to hear of a deterioriation in Mzia Amaglobeli's sight while in continued pretrial detention. Last week, I had the privilege of meeting Mzia's friends and colleagues in #Georgia and it reinforced how unjust these proceedings are. #freemzia #journalismisnotacrime #holdtheline

At #ZEG2025, @jodieginsberg.bsky.social spoke with @caoilfhionn.bsky.social‬, Batumelebi.ge’s Irma Dimitradze, and journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social about Georgia’s only jailed journalist, Mzia Amaghlobeli. #ZEGFESTS#ZEGStorytellingFestivalal

🗣️"It's very clear that Mzia's arrest is unjust and unfair. She's been punished disproportionately and it's clear that that's in retaliation for her work. .. it's not just about Mzia, it's about all Georgian journalists", - @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, CEO of @pressfreedom.bsky.social. #FreeMzia

Breaking News: Israel attacked Iran’s state broadcaster in Tehran while it was live on the air, as the deadly conflict stretched into its fourth day. Videos and images showed its headquarters on fire.

More than 120 global leaders of news and press freedom organizations have called on world leaders, governments, and international institutions to act immediately to ensure journalists from outside Gaza are given immediate, independent access to the territory. cpj.org/2025/06/cpj-...

“We suffer from continuous hunger attacks, extreme fatigue, loss of balance, and an inability to think or perform any tasks.” Gazan journalists tell @pressfreedom.bsky.social about reporting while they starve as Israel blocks food and medical supplies cpj.org/2025/05/murd...

Tax audits target Hong Kong journalists, news outlets as press freedom concerns intensify cpj.org/2025/05/tax-...

John Oliver, last year's @pressfreedom.bsky.social Awards host, just devoted a show to US press freedom. He quotes former awards chair Shari Redstone who said: "Press freedom must constantly be defended." We agree. Now's the time for everyone, especially media owners, to stand up for a free press.

Spread the word! We @pressfreedom.bsky.social and our friends @freedom.press @rcfp.org @penamerica.bsky.social and IWMF today launched the US Journalist Assistance Network - to help journalists more easily identify safety and legal resources and access assistance and training. More info👇

More than 60 journalists in exile are under investigation or facing criminal charges in cases that were opened after they left #Belarus, constituting a massive campaign of transnational repression against those who continue to report from abroad. cpj.org/2025/05/bela...

Overnight, the full DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling siding with Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks in their parallel efforts to defeat Trump's termination orders >>> cnn.it/4m7QzNf

“We must stop thinking – and acting – as if the safety of journalists is a concern only for the media. Every journalist’s murder is an attack on our first line of defense against repressive regimes.” — CPJ CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social's op-ed for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yjwhjvkj

Last year was the deadliest for reporters since @pressfreedom.bsky.social began collecting data. Violent attacks on the press are becoming the norm, not the exception, warns @jodieginsberg.bsky.social.

“Nicolás Maduro did not close our bureau. Donald Trump closed it.” Hundreds of VOA journalists remain shut out of their newsroom nearly two months after Trump signed an executive order aimed at dismantling their parent company, the US Agency for Global Media. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our US program has evolved significantly over the past 7 years. When we first offered newsrooms safety support, editors would often say: “Oh, we don’t have those issues here.” Now could not be more different. Since November, CPJ has provided 500+ journalists w/ digital and physical safety training.

The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh prompted our 2023 report “Deadly Pattern” that showed no one had ever been held accountable for the killing of a journalist by Israeli military over the previous two decades. That pattern has not changed. We continue to demand justice. cpj.org/reports/2023...

Mine too. ❤️

Thanks @liamjscott.bsky.social for continuing to highlight the threats to press freedom globally.

It's World Press Freedom Day: a day that should be a celebration of the importance of the press in underpinning democracies and open societies. Instead, the day is increasingly one of mourning. Attacks on the press are becoming the norm. We cannot let them. Press Freedom is Your Freedom. www.cpj.org

"This is the most dangerous time ever to be a journalist." — @jodieginsberg.bsky.social (@pressfreedom.bsky.social), tonight at 8/11pm with Jessica Jerreat (@voanews.com.web.brid.gy), Heather Bakken (@wpfc-lpc.bsky.social), Anna Romandash, and @spaikin.bsky.social

This weekend a film telling the story of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya opens in the US. Anna was murdered in 2006 yet her life and death resonate more than ever with more journalists being killed, jailed and targeted than ever before. Go see Words of War. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As the curtain went up on the Broadway show Good Night, and Good Luck - a show about journalists standing up to lies and intimidation, @pressfreedom.bsky.social was publishing its report on the first 100 days of the Trump administration. So many echoes... Time to be counted. cpj.org/special-repo...