Jon Williams
@WilliamsJon
Now: Executive Director @rorypecktrust, boards @pressfreedom, @INSInews. Before: Managing Director @rtenews, Managing Editor @abc, World Editor @BBC.
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Great to meet so many friends old & new at #ijf24 . Humbling to listen to others talk about Rory Peck Trust - grateful to all for insights & best wishes. Perugia special place, journalism festival unique event. Thank you Arianna, Chris & whole team - ciao.
Proud to share this moment with my #CPJ friends Jodie Ginsberg & Gypsy Guillén Kaiser. Grateful for your leadership- and to all who joined. #ijf24 #Gaza #pressfreedom
180 days behind bars in Russia.. guilty of nothing. Alsu Kurmasheva is: A strong American woman; A loving wife of a good man; the Mom of two great children; a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist. Russia has the power to end Alsu’s unjust, unfair and wrongful detention. It’s time to #FreeAlsu .
“You’re the kind of person who gives us hope for our profession and for #Afghanistan ” Philip Chetwynd tells Lotfullah Najafizada. Spot on. In a business where too often we can despair, Lotfullah speaks to hope & a future of promise. JW #JournalismMatters #ijf24
Nearly 20 years ago, I met a young Afghan TV journalist. Lotfullah Najafizada went on to lead TOLOnews. One of great heroes of #Afghanistan ’s #pressfreedom pre-2021. Today he continues to fly the flag for Afghan journalism via Amu TV. JW
Good morning from beautiful Perugia & the International Journalism Festival, the crossroads of global journalism. I’m Jon Williams, Executive Director Rory Peck Trust & over next 2 days, I’ll bring you a flavour of #IJF24 in a takeover of RPT’s account.
Congratulations to the Reuters team for their George Polk Awards win - and for donating your prize money to Committee to Protect Journalists!
No matter how old you are, starting a new role is always a special day. Today I’m proud to be joining an incredible team doing important work. Excited for what’s to come. My first job: a thank you letter to all who support Rory Peck Trust. #journalismmatters #pressfreedom
A giant of journalism, a trailblazer - and a class act. #HellaPick was still filing stories well into her 90s. #JournalismMatters
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Don’t normally comment on politics, but when theTaliban seized #Afghanistan in Aug 2021, #SimonCoveney helped save dozens of Afghan journalists & their families whose lives at risk. He got them to safety. They - and I - forever grateful. #pressfreedom independent.ie/irish-news/pol…
Salman Jamal was a prominent news reporter in Somalia when he was nearly killed in a bomb attack. Now he shares a room in a Dublin hotel with 3 other men. #JournalismMatters .
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