Jonathan Rozen
@jonathanrozen.bsky.social
Program Coordinator with the Africa team at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Views expressed here are my own.
https://www.rozenjonathan.com/
Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Views expressed here are my own.
https://www.rozenjonathan.com/
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JOB OPPORTUNITY- open to candidates remote within the US: @techpolicypress.bsky.social seeks an Assistant Editor to manage audience and contributor engagement! More details here: jobs.gusto.com/postings/tec...
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY- open to candidates remote within the US: @techpolicypress.bsky.social seeks an Assistant Editor to manage audience and contributor engagement! More details here: jobs.gusto.com/postings/tec...
“Many of us changed the way we communicate via phones, not only with our sources, but with our families.”
This is how journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social described the harms from being targeted with spyware.
Epistemic rights help explain such attacks: www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
This is how journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social described the harms from being targeted with spyware.
Epistemic rights help explain such attacks: www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
Epistemic rights help explain attacks on the press
This concept can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.
www.openglobalrights.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“Many of us changed the way we communicate via phones, not only with our sources, but with our families.”
This is how journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social described the harms from being targeted with spyware.
Epistemic rights help explain such attacks: www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
This is how journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social described the harms from being targeted with spyware.
Epistemic rights help explain such attacks: www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
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CPJ’s Jonathan Rozen explores how epistemology, the study of theories of knowledge, can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.
Read now on Open Global Rights 👇
Read now on Open Global Rights 👇
Epistemic rights help explain attacks on the press
This concept can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.
www.openglobalrights.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
CPJ’s Jonathan Rozen explores how epistemology, the study of theories of knowledge, can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.
Read now on Open Global Rights 👇
Read now on Open Global Rights 👇
#Sudan: Reports from the weekend indicated that as many as 11 journalists had gone missing in El-Fasher. As of October 30, CPJ had verified the whereabouts of three, who have fled the city. The others remain incommunicado amid ongoing hostilities and communications blackout.
cpj.org/2025/10/cpj-...
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CPJ calls for protection of journalists in Sudan’s El-Fasher, immediate release of those abducted - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, October 30, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by reports emerging from El-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state, which the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ...
cpj.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#Sudan: Reports from the weekend indicated that as many as 11 journalists had gone missing in El-Fasher. As of October 30, CPJ had verified the whereabouts of three, who have fled the city. The others remain incommunicado amid ongoing hostilities and communications blackout.
cpj.org/2025/10/cpj-...
cpj.org/2025/10/cpj-...
What are epistemic rights?
My latest explores how this concept can enhance our ability to define, expose, and confront threats to press freedom and democracy.
www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
My latest explores how this concept can enhance our ability to define, expose, and confront threats to press freedom and democracy.
www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
Epistemic rights help explain attacks on the press
This concept can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.
www.openglobalrights.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
What are epistemic rights?
My latest explores how this concept can enhance our ability to define, expose, and confront threats to press freedom and democracy.
www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
My latest explores how this concept can enhance our ability to define, expose, and confront threats to press freedom and democracy.
www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
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Journalists in Sudan’s El-Fasher are trapped under siege. They endure violence, hunger and relentless bombardment alongside the civilians they report on.
Read CPJ’s new investigation⤵️
cpj.org/2025/10/hunt...
Read CPJ’s new investigation⤵️
cpj.org/2025/10/hunt...
October 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Journalists in Sudan’s El-Fasher are trapped under siege. They endure violence, hunger and relentless bombardment alongside the civilians they report on.
Read CPJ’s new investigation⤵️
cpj.org/2025/10/hunt...
Read CPJ’s new investigation⤵️
cpj.org/2025/10/hunt...
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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: tshepiso.ntombela@wits.ac.za
📩RSVP: tshepiso.ntombela@wits.ac.za
September 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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: tshepiso.ntombela@wits.ac.za
📩RSVP: tshepiso.ntombela@wits.ac.za
Senegal has jailed at least three news commentators since April:
- Badara Gadiaga, arrested July 9
- Bachir Fofana, arrested June 25
- Abdou Nguer, arrested April 14
Read @pressfreedom.bsky.social's latest on these cases: cpj.org/2025/07/sene...
- Badara Gadiaga, arrested July 9
- Bachir Fofana, arrested June 25
- Abdou Nguer, arrested April 14
Read @pressfreedom.bsky.social's latest on these cases: cpj.org/2025/07/sene...
Senegalese commentator arrested, prime minister calls for media boycott - Committee to Protect Journalists
Dakar, July 14, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Senegalese authorities to release news commentator Badara Gadiaga, to cease arresting journalists, and to refrain from retaliating ag...
cpj.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Senegal has jailed at least three news commentators since April:
- Badara Gadiaga, arrested July 9
- Bachir Fofana, arrested June 25
- Abdou Nguer, arrested April 14
Read @pressfreedom.bsky.social's latest on these cases: cpj.org/2025/07/sene...
- Badara Gadiaga, arrested July 9
- Bachir Fofana, arrested June 25
- Abdou Nguer, arrested April 14
Read @pressfreedom.bsky.social's latest on these cases: cpj.org/2025/07/sene...
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CPJ’s Africa Regional Director Angela Quintal will be the keynote speaker at the 17th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture, “Surveillance, Safety and the Silencing of Truth," to discuss how shrinking press freedoms undermine the safety of journalists.
🗓️July 13 at 5 p.m. WAT
lectureseries.wscij.org
🗓️July 13 at 5 p.m. WAT
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July 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
CPJ’s Africa Regional Director Angela Quintal will be the keynote speaker at the 17th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture, “Surveillance, Safety and the Silencing of Truth," to discuss how shrinking press freedoms undermine the safety of journalists.
🗓️July 13 at 5 p.m. WAT
lectureseries.wscij.org
🗓️July 13 at 5 p.m. WAT
lectureseries.wscij.org
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NEW @citizenlab.ca report confirms the targeting of two more journalist with #Paragon spyware in the context of 🇮🇹
Details here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...
@billmarczak.org @jsrailton.bsky.social
Details here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...
@billmarczak.org @jsrailton.bsky.social
Graphite Caught: First Forensic Confirmation of Paragon’s iOS Mercenary Spyware Finds Journalists Targeted - The Citizen Lab
We conducted a forensic analysis of devices belonging to two journalists who were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware.
citizenlab.ca
June 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
NEW @citizenlab.ca report confirms the targeting of two more journalist with #Paragon spyware in the context of 🇮🇹
Details here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...
@billmarczak.org @jsrailton.bsky.social
Details here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...
@billmarczak.org @jsrailton.bsky.social
This piece by @lhn.bsky.social points to an important issue.
Residential proxies are also being used to attack media sites as part of an “emerging censorship strategy that poses a serious transnational threat to press freedom”: cpj.org/2024/07/cybe...
@pressfreedom.bsky.social
Residential proxies are also being used to attack media sites as part of an “emerging censorship strategy that poses a serious transnational threat to press freedom”: cpj.org/2024/07/cybe...
@pressfreedom.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This piece by @lhn.bsky.social points to an important issue.
Residential proxies are also being used to attack media sites as part of an “emerging censorship strategy that poses a serious transnational threat to press freedom”: cpj.org/2024/07/cybe...
@pressfreedom.bsky.social
Residential proxies are also being used to attack media sites as part of an “emerging censorship strategy that poses a serious transnational threat to press freedom”: cpj.org/2024/07/cybe...
@pressfreedom.bsky.social
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CPJ calls on #Senegal to free journalist René Capain Bassène and investigate the mistreatment he’s experienced behind bars. He is serving a life sentence in prison for murder, a crime that witnesses told CPJ he couldn't have committed.
cpj.org?p=446557
📷 Family of René Capain Bassène
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📷 Family of René Capain Bassène
May 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
CPJ calls on #Senegal to free journalist René Capain Bassène and investigate the mistreatment he’s experienced behind bars. He is serving a life sentence in prison for murder, a crime that witnesses told CPJ he couldn't have committed.
cpj.org?p=446557
📷 Family of René Capain Bassène
cpj.org?p=446557
📷 Family of René Capain Bassène
Four days after journalist Émérite Amisi Musada went missing in Bukavu, the capital of the DRC’s eastern South Kivu province, he was found naked on the edge of nearby Lake Kivu. Amisi told CPJ that he was taken, tortured, and interrogated about his work by unidentified men.
cpj.org/2025/04/drc-...
cpj.org/2025/04/drc-...
DRC journalist Émérite Amisi Musada reports being abducted, tortured over war coverage - Committee to Protect Journalists
Kinshasa, April 21, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the mistreatment of Congolese journalist Émérite Amisi Musada, who was abducted by men in civilian clothes on April 15 after...
cpj.org
April 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Four days after journalist Émérite Amisi Musada went missing in Bukavu, the capital of the DRC’s eastern South Kivu province, he was found naked on the edge of nearby Lake Kivu. Amisi told CPJ that he was taken, tortured, and interrogated about his work by unidentified men.
cpj.org/2025/04/drc-...
cpj.org/2025/04/drc-...
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Many of the journalists in CPJ’s 2024 prison census have been sentenced to spend significant parts of their lives in jail. Journalist René Capain Bassène is serving a life sentence in prison for murder, a crime that witnesses told us that he couldn't have committed.
More: cpj.org/2025/01/cpj-...
More: cpj.org/2025/01/cpj-...
April 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Many of the journalists in CPJ’s 2024 prison census have been sentenced to spend significant parts of their lives in jail. Journalist René Capain Bassène is serving a life sentence in prison for murder, a crime that witnesses told us that he couldn't have committed.
More: cpj.org/2025/01/cpj-...
More: cpj.org/2025/01/cpj-...
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📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware
Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab
Amnesty International has found evidence that two journalists at the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (“BIRN”), an award-winning network of investigative journalists, were targeted ...
securitylab.amnesty.org
March 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware
Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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The governments of 🇦🇺Australia, 🇨🇦Canada, 🇨🇾Cyprus, 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇮🇱Israel, & 🇸🇬Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions, according to a new technical report by renowned digital security lab @citizenlab.ca, writes @lorenzofb.bsky.social.
techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/r...
techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/r...
Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers | TechCrunch
The Citizen Lab said it believes several governments may be customers of spyware maker Paragon Solutions.
techcrunch.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The governments of 🇦🇺Australia, 🇨🇦Canada, 🇨🇾Cyprus, 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇮🇱Israel, & 🇸🇬Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions, according to a new technical report by renowned digital security lab @citizenlab.ca, writes @lorenzofb.bsky.social.
techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/r...
techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/r...
"Big tech platforms already collect vast amounts of personal data for advertising and, while some previously resisted government requests, they now seem eager to comply," writes @rondeibert.bsky.social.
macleans.ca/politics/the...
macleans.ca/politics/the...
The U.S. Wants Canada to Become A Police State - Macleans.ca
Appeasing Trump's border demands only emboldens authoritarians worldwide. Here's why we must resist.
macleans.ca
March 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Big tech platforms already collect vast amounts of personal data for advertising and, while some previously resisted government requests, they now seem eager to comply," writes @rondeibert.bsky.social.
macleans.ca/politics/the...
macleans.ca/politics/the...
“What we are seeing is a steady criminalization of journalists around the world, and it’s a huge threat to press freedom.”
www.voanews.com/a/cybercrime...
www.voanews.com/a/cybercrime...
Cybercrime laws risk 'steady criminalization' of journalists, analysts warn
Changes in Pakistan, Myanmar risk adding to already repressive reporting environment, media watchdogs say
www.voanews.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“What we are seeing is a steady criminalization of journalists around the world, and it’s a huge threat to press freedom.”
www.voanews.com/a/cybercrime...
www.voanews.com/a/cybercrime...
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We're relaunching the Press Freedom Defense Fund to assist newsrooms and reporters facing serious legal threats.
The Intercept Relaunches Press Freedom Defense Fund
PFDF will provide assistance to reporters facing serious legal threats, plus a program to help news organizations implement risk reduction strategies.
interc.pt
February 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We're relaunching the Press Freedom Defense Fund to assist newsrooms and reporters facing serious legal threats.
At least 75 human rights organizations have written to the UN Human Rights Council, appealing for the establishment of an independent mandate to investigate and report on rights violations and abuses being committed in eastern DRC, and to support accountability.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
Joint Letter Calling for an Independent Mandate to Investigate Rights Violations and Abuses by All Parties in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
We, the undersigned 75 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human Righ...
www.hrw.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
At least 75 human rights organizations have written to the UN Human Rights Council, appealing for the establishment of an independent mandate to investigate and report on rights violations and abuses being committed in eastern DRC, and to support accountability.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
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NEW: WhatsApp says it has notified 90 victims, including journalists and members of civil society, that they were targeted with spyware made by Paragon.
This is the first time that Paragon is linked to alleged abuse of its products.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...
This is the first time that Paragon is linked to alleged abuse of its products.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...
WhatsApp says it disrupted a hacking campaign targeting journalists with spyware | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned company said the campaign was linked to Israeli spyware maker Paragon.
techcrunch.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: WhatsApp says it has notified 90 victims, including journalists and members of civil society, that they were targeted with spyware made by Paragon.
This is the first time that Paragon is linked to alleged abuse of its products.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...
This is the first time that Paragon is linked to alleged abuse of its products.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...
As the M23 rebel group advance in eastern DRC, journalists are concerned for their safety and rights groups have warned that civilians are at heightened risk.
The government has also threatened the press over reporting on the escalating conflict.
cpj.org/2025/01/jour...
The government has also threatened the press over reporting on the escalating conflict.
cpj.org/2025/01/jour...
Journalists covering eastern DRC conflict face death threats, censorship - Committee to Protect Journalists
The M23 rebel group’s assault on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma has brought familiar dangers for Congolese journalists, who for years have navigated intimidation and attac...
cpj.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
As the M23 rebel group advance in eastern DRC, journalists are concerned for their safety and rights groups have warned that civilians are at heightened risk.
The government has also threatened the press over reporting on the escalating conflict.
cpj.org/2025/01/jour...
The government has also threatened the press over reporting on the escalating conflict.
cpj.org/2025/01/jour...
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Real-time bidding, which powers nearly every ad you see online, might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of. Learn how it works and how to protect yourself.
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...
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January 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Real-time bidding, which powers nearly every ad you see online, might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of. Learn how it works and how to protect yourself.
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I spent some time at a remote monastery in Ethiopia's Tigray region, learning how the community that safeguards the world's world's oldest 'illuminated' christian gospels are coping with traumatic grief in the aftermath of war
My feature for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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My feature for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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In Search of Ethiopia's Garima Gospels
Some of the world’s oldest Christian manuscripts are in hiding from the violence that has ripped through their region
newlinesmag.com
January 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I spent some time at a remote monastery in Ethiopia's Tigray region, learning how the community that safeguards the world's world's oldest 'illuminated' christian gospels are coping with traumatic grief in the aftermath of war
My feature for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
My feature for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
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Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship
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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship
🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...
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