New York, January 6, 2015 – In 2015, 71 journalists were killed in direct relation to their work, making it the fourth deadliest year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began keeping... Read more
Dear Colleagues/Friends: With this email I’d like to wish you a very happy and successful New Year and to kindly let you know that the MA Course Diversity and the Media as set up by Media... Read more
New York, December 31, 2015-The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo not to extradite Egide Mwemero, an exiled Burundian radio journalist... Read more
New York, December 29, 2015 – Of 69 journalists who were killed in relation to their work in 2015, Islamic militants were responsible for killing 28 of them, or 40 percent, the Committ... Read more
Nairobi, December 27, 2015 – The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Ethiopia to release the editor-in-chief of Negere Ethiopia online newspaper, Getachew Shiferaw, who... Read more
As part of efforts to promote media & information literacy and build the capacity of membership-based, youth-led organisations in Nigeria, UNESCO supported the holding of a two-day works... Read more
Nairobi, December 22, 2015-The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Ethiopia to release news anchor Fikadu Mirkana. Fikadu, who works for the state-run broadcaster Oromia... Read more
Peter Nkanga/CPJ West Africa Representative The Committee to Protect Journalists alongside 19 Nigerian, African and international organisations today signed an open letter addressed to the u... Read more
Tom Rhodes/CPJ East Africa Representative Elections in Tanzania passed smoothly in October, but several local journalists and a media lawyer told me the spectre of anti-press laws is casting... Read more
Press Release Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate and human rights activist, has called on the Muhammadu Buhari led government to move swiftly to end the recurrence of arbitrary use of force on civ... Read more
