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Kathy Jones
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Editor and data diver. Trying to keep the lights on for journalism around the world. #PressFreedomIsYourFreedom CPJ.org 🕯️💻
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Jamal Khashoggi came from a prominent Saudi family but fled his country in June, 2017, after he'd become increasingly critical of his government. The Saudi journalist was murdered in 2018. n.pr/43JW7WJ
Opinion: Jamal Khashoggi's words live forever
Jamal Khashoggi came from a prominent Saudi family but fled his country in June, 2017, after he'd become increasingly critical of his government. The Saudi journalist was murdered in 2018.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
Dong Yuyu and Sonia Dahmani are imprisoned in China and Tunisia respectively, Bolot Temirov is reporting in exile in Europe, and Elvira Pilar and Juan Carlos Tito, our married couple from Ecuador, are living in exile and unable to leave Canada while their asylum claims are in process.
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Tonight from NYC: CPJ’s 35th Annual International #PressFreedom Awards 🏆 For the first time in CPJ's history, none of our International #PressFreedom Awardees are able to attend the ceremony.

Their absence is a powerful reminder of why CPJ's advocacy for press freedom is more important than ever.
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
CPJ is honored to recognize this year's International Press Freedom Awards honorees who exemplify the best of journalism🏆

⚡️Dong Yuyu
⚡️Elvira Pilar and Juan Carlos Tito
⚡️Bolot Temirov
⚡️Sonia Dahmani
⚡️Gwen Ifill Awardee David McCraw
November 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
TOMORROW 🎬 CPJ is proud to support the documentary "#ArmedOnlyWithACamera." Join us for a screening + panel discussion, with CPJ’s Chief Emergencies Officer Lucy Westcott, at the @columbiajournalism.bsky.social.

🗓️ 11/13 | 6-8PM ET

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/armed-only...
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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freedom.press
Police and judges need a refresher on the First Amendment.

Kansas’ Marion County just provided the syllabus — the expensive way.
Kansas county pays $3M for forgetting the First Amendment
Marion County cops got their First Amendment lesson the hard way. Police elsewhere should take note
freedom.press
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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kansasreflector.com
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
This story highlights how important it is to have journalists who have expertise in specific areas. In this case, a journalist embedded in war becomes a specialist in veterans, enabling him to cover these stories more in depth than someone who is new to this area. Thank you @quillawrence.bsky.social
napaaqtuk.bsky.social Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 15d
Holy crap, this 2 part story is so important. The first part is of the Carlson's early life, how he ended up in the National Guard, serving in Iraq, post war life. The second part is about his time in jail as a vet with PTSD. TW: violence, suicide, sounds of war
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...
Carlson’s War: Part 1 : Up First from NPR
What does it mean to live through war? And can someone who’s experienced war ever get over it? These are questions NPR’s Quil Lawrence has been asking himself for years. A decade ago, Lawrence did a...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The “Silenced” series examines the global targeting of journalists and the broader implications for press freedom. Join us for the opening of the Memorial Gallery that honors journalists who have been killed since CPJ began keeping record 3+ decades ago.

🗓️ 11/6 | 5:30PM ET

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November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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freedom.press
The administration hates “fake news” so much it keeps stealing journalists' work for its ICE sizzle reels.

Why can't it find footage from those supposedly better outlets it wants in the WH and Pentagon?

Could it be that they don’t make content worth stealing?
Chicago Sun-Times demands DHS remove social posts using its photos without permission
A letter sent to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Thursday says the government used three Sun-Times photos without permission to promote its immigration enforcement campaign. The ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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freedom.press
"The top brass at the LA Sheriff’s Department don’t want their deputies to be accountable to the public they serve. The Sheriff’s Department fights all Public Records Act cases," attorney @susanseager.bsky.social tells us about LASD's stonewalling of journalist @cerisecastle.bsky.social.
LA sheriff ducks journalist’s request for deputy photographs
ICE won’t be the only secret police in town if the department gets its way
freedom.press
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
As paramilitary forces seized control of El-Fasher, journalists became both witnesses and victims of the city’s collapse. At least 13 reporters are missing under blackout, others abducted or sexually assaulted by RSF fighters.

“Every hour, we lose another voice.”

Read more:
As Sudan’s El-Fasher falls, the world loses sight of its journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, October 31, 2025 — As paramilitary forces seized control of Sudan’s El-Fasher over the weekend, its journalists have become both witnesses and victims of the unfolding horrors.  Over the…
cpj.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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To mark International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2025, CPJ calls for radical reform of the systems to investigate journalist killings + hold perpetrators to account after the deadliest 3 years for journalists + media workers since CPJ began keeping records. cpj.org/?p=532691
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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CPJ joined a global coalition of 29 civil society organizations calling on democratic governments to prioritize advocacy on behalf of journalists, human rights defenders + political leaders who have been imprisoned for their reporting or views.
cpj.org?p=534123

#InternationalDayofPoliticalPrisoners
CPJ joins call for release of political prisoners, including jailed journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined a global coalition of 29 civil society organizations calling on democratic governments to prioritize advocacy on behalf of journalists, human rights defende...
cpj.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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pressfreedomtracker.us
Freelance photojournalist Matthew Kaplan was shot in the hip two to three times with pepper balls while covering protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Sept. 26.

The chemical irritant powder coated him and one of his cameras.
Photojournalist shot with multiple pepper balls outside Illinois ICE facility
Freelance photojournalist Matthew Kaplan was shot with multiple crowd-control munitions fired by federal officers while covering protests outside a U.S. …
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October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Justice denied | CPJ remembers the life and work of Samuel Wazizi, a popular pidgin news anchor and camera operator. He was arrested after reporting on allegations of government killings, and later died in government custody. cpj.org/issue/intern...

#EndImpunity #TruthNeverDies
October 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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pressfreedomtracker.us
“Preventing people from asking public questions has a chilling effect” — @combs0294.bsky.social, a reporter for @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, who said he was removed from the media list and denied access to a DHS news conference at a federal building just outside Minneapolis on Oct. 24.
Reporter denied access at DHS news conference in Minnesota
Clint Combs, a reporter for the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, said he was removed from the approved media list and denied access …
pressfreedomtracker.us
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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freedom.press
Hyattsville Immigration Court has lifted its ridiculous requirement for reporters to get permission from furloughed federal agents to cover hearings.

We wrote to the court’s top judge yesterday about how the requirement violated the constitution.

cnsmaryland.org/2025/10/31/c...
Screenshot of letter to Hyattsville Immigration Court's top judge about how the requirement violated the constitution.
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Justice denied | CPJ pays tribute to the life of Ján Kuciak, an investigative journalist who examined corruption + tax fraud. Marián Kočner, a business executive that Kuciak had written about, was accused by Kuciak of threatening him and was indicted but found not guilty twice. tinyurl.com/59uwtn8k
October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social is honored to be appointed as a new member of the Board of Visitors for the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford. She will bring the JSK community insights and expertise in supporting for journalists from her leadership at CPJ.
JSK Journalism Fellowships welcomes three new board members
They are leading and building organizations at the forefront of supporting journalists and press freedom.
jsk.stanford.edu
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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CPJ renewed its call for an independent and transparent investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after a former senior U.S. security official said in a news report that the U.S. government downplayed evidence in her killing.
cpj.org?p=532759
CPJ calls for transparent US investigation into killing of Shireen Abu Akleh - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, October 28, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists renewed its call for an independent and transparent investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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🎬 From Academy Award-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi + Jimmy Chin, “Love+War” offers a “real, raw, and deeply human” (@thewrap.com) portrait of @lynseyaddario.bsky.social, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict photographer, as she struggles to balance the dangers of her job with her role as a mother.
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Bless good journalists!
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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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.

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#JournalismMatters
August 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM