In April 2023 I visited crusading Guatemalan editor José Rubén Zamora in prison on assignment for The New Yorker. I never imagined that 15 months later he would still be in jail. He is. newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

Two years behind bars: CPJ calls on the Bernardo Arévalo administration to free José Rubén Zamora immediately. Zamora remains in pretrial isolation in conditions that his lawyers say amount to torture, including deprivation of light and water, aggressive and humiliating

"I truly believed our values were aligned" I interviewed ⁦Selina Cheng⁩, recently fired by @wsj after being elected Chair of ⁦香港記者協會 HKJA⁩, the main press union in #HongKong. ⁦Sheila Coronel⁩ and others have spoken about her case reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/selina-ch…

Congratulations to Scilla Alecci #cjsStabile Columbia Journalism for her work on this collaborative investigation on deforestation that just won the Oakes Prize.

CPJ welcomes reports that The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva will be released as part of a prisoner exchange, and calls on Russia to release other jailed journalists and stop harassing those in exile. cpj.org/2024/08/cpj-we… CPJ Europe and Central Asia

Hopefully Evan will very soon be home & be reporting again. In Hong Kong 7 including Jimmy Lai have been jailed for almost 4 yrs, release date TBD. A court will decide whether 2 other editors are guilty of sedition at the end of August. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

With the release of Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and #Pulitzer winner Vladimir Kara-Murza, the clarion call of democratic freedom remains indomitable. Read Kara-Murza's winning work (written under existential duress from prison) below. pulitzer.org/winners/vladim…

“Evan and Alsu have been apart from their families for far too long,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “They were detained and sentenced on spurious charges intended to punish them for their journalism and stifle independent reporting. Their reported release is welcome – but it does

Riveting read: Inside the Secret Negotiations To Free Evan Gershkovich. Very happy for Evan & @wsj. Thinking of other journalists still in jail: #JoseRubenZamora & Jimmy Lai. #JournalismIsNotACrime wsj.com/world/europe/e…

CPJ calls on #HongKong authorities and news organizations to protect the rights of journalists to report freely and defend their profession at a time the media are facing growing pressure in the city cpj.org/2024/08/cpj-ca…

Combining Ethnography and Journalism Into an Award-Winning Investigation in Central America Global Investigative Journalism Network gijn.org/stories/ethnog…

Freedom is a right. Imprisonment is the last resort, not the first option. Journalist #JoseRubénZamora, has been arbitrarily detained for 756 days while facing spurious charges. We hope that his rights and the presumption of innocence are respected. #FreeZamora

I spoke to my Committee to Protect Journalists predecessor Joel Simon for this VANITY FAIR article on what a second Trump term might mean for journalists in the United States. vanityfair.com/news/story/ame…

.John Archibald of AL.com, gina chua of Semafor and Natasha Trethewey of Northwestern have been elected to the #Pulitzer Prize Board! Click below to read more. pulitzer.org/news/archibald…

Amazing data and investigative work here: The War Crimes That the Military Buried via ⁦In the Dark⁩ ⁦The New Yorker⁩ newyorker.com/podcast/in-the…

It took 13 years but finally, the prime suspect in a journalist’s murder in the #Philippines is in custody.

In our latest trust investigation, grist & High Country News located more than 2 million surface and subsurface acres of land on 79 reservations in 15 states that are used to support public institutions and reduce the financial burden on taxpayers. grist.org/indigenous/how…

Tonight Columbia Journalism, ⁦Rachel Maddow Feed⁩ on covering elections in conversation with Dean Cobb.

Congratulations to this year’s Committee to Protect Journalists International Press Freedom Awardees! - Quimy de León (@kimyorion) - Alsu Kurmasheva (Alsu Kurmasheva) - Shrouq Al Aila (Ain Media عين ميديا) - Samira Sabou (Samira Sabou) We will also posthumously honor Christophe Deloire of RSF ❤️

CPJ will also posthumously honor Christophe Deloire, who served as director general of the press freedom organization RSF in English, with the 2024 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. This award is presented annually to an individual who has shown extraordinary and sustained achievement in