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#WhatWeAreReading this week in #TheTorch newsletter:
A Black newspaper in Washington state gets a second life: ‘We can’t let the Black Lens die’ — Andrew Buncombe, @Guardian
theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
Find more reading recommendations in The Torch: cpj.org/thetorch/2024/…
Those reading about or covering the conflict in #Israel #Gaza , please review these helpful resources from our partners Headlines Network The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma:
-Vicarious trauma: img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/6ca5…
-Working with traumatic imagery: dartcenter.org/content/workin…
#PressFreedom #JournalistSafety
CPJ and more than 85 journalism and civil society organizations, and 35 attorneys and law professors, call on U.S. lawmakers to pass the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act (PRESS Act).
In our joint letter to Senator Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham, we state:
The
#Bangladesh : CPJ is disturbed by the May 26 assault on The Daily Star correspondent Aklakur Rahman Akash, who was reportedly beaten by 20 to 30 men for around three minutes while covering an ownership conflict over a factory in Savar town. The men also confiscated Akash’s phone,
Join us at the Oslo Freedom Forum on June 5 at 12pm CEST:
CPJ's Yeganeh Rezaian will moderate the panel 'Defying Gender-Based Violence in Authoritarian Regimes.'
Speakers: Bota Jardemalie 🇰🇿🇧🇪🇪🇺, Clare Byarugaba, and Rosa María Payá A.
More information about the panel: oslofreedomforum.com/panel-workshop…
Report: #PegasusSpyware targets exiled journalists from Russia, Latvia, Belarus
Access Now & Citizen Lab identified at least 7 people whose devices were targeted between 2020–2023 by Pegasus, a zero-click spyware produced by Israeli company #NSOGroup .
cpj.org/2024/05/report…
In these dark times for #PressFreedom , I am thrilled to see our Committee to Protect Journalists ad in The The New Yorker 😍. Grateful to Condé Nast for this partnership 🙏 and your support for a free press. More here:
cpj.org/2024/03/conde-…
Gazan journalist Roshdi Sarraj returned from a work trip
to report on the war. He managed only a few reports: on Oct 22, he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
His wife Shrouq Al Aila continues to report. She tells Committee to Protect Journalists what cameras can’t show. cpj.org/?p=389605
'Our kids miss their mom.”
Alsu’s grim milestone of six months wrongfully held in a Russian prison was marked in the The Washington Post, sponsored by National Press Club, Committee to Protect Journalists, James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, International Women's Media Foundation, IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media, RSF, WAN-IFRA, and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.