By Anna Brakha, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia Researcher This article was originally published on CPJ’s website. It is around 7:30 p.m. on June 27 in the Ria Lounge, one of the few restaurants still open in Kramatorsk, a frontline city in eastern Ukraine. Known by regulars as “Ria Pizza”…

By Beh Lih Yi, program coordinator of the Asia program at CPJ This opinion article was originally published on Nikkei Asia. In recent weeks, Afghanistan’s Taliban government sent its first delegation to Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, and held high-level talks with U.S. government representatives in Qatar. These are…

by Robert Mahoney, CPJ’s former executive director This article was originally published on Just Security. At his Summit for Democracy in March, President Joe Biden said he was “proud to stand with all of you to defend those fundamental values we all share” including “freedom of the press” around the…

This op-ed was originally published on CPJ’s website on June 6, 2023. One time she drew flowers on a letter to her ailing mother from her Chinese prison cell. Another time it was pictures of penguins. The drawings were a good sign. …

By Knight First Amendment Institute Director Jameel Jaffer and CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon This piece was originally published by Just Security on February 26, 2021. A U.S. intelligence report that was unlawfully suppressed by the Trump administration but released Friday afternoon concludes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman…

By Courtney C. Radsch / CPJ Advocacy Director This piece was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation on January 29, 2021. Rampant conspiracy theories, coronavirus disinformation, election interference, and information manipulation on a global scale have proliferated in the toxic environment fostered by Big Tech. As the coronavirus pandemic has…

By Courtney C. Radsch / CPJ Advocacy Director This piece was originally published by Project Syndicate, June 11, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — It is no surprise that journalists would go out to the streets to cover the largest and most widespread protests the United States has experienced in more than…

By Robert Mahoney, Deputy Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists Big tech helped create the fever swamp of lies and rumors we have to wade through every day to get our news. The coronavirus pandemic is a chance for them to start draining it. Facebook, Google and Twitter among others…

By Özgür Öğret/CPJ Turkey Representative Pro-Kurdish newspaper seized A government-affiliated insurer and fund manager took over one of Turkey’s last remaining pro-Kurdish dailies, Özgürlükçü Düşünce, on March 28, and Istanbul police detained at least 27 of its staff members, according to news reports. Police broke into a building in the…