Following a new report on journalist safety and the launch of Committee to Protect Journalist's new Emergencies Response Team, this evening will bring together a variety of perspectives on how the safety landscape for journalists and media workers has changed in recent years.
Following a new report on journalist safety and the launch of Committee to Protect Journalist's new Emergencies Response Team, this evening will bring together a variety of perspectives on how the safety landscape for journalists and media workers has changed in recent years.
The days when cyber security practices could reasonably be looked upon as an optional work skill for journalists are behind us. In the first weeks of the Trump administration, an unprecedented spate of leaks to news outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post has been responded to with demands from President Trump to identify and crack down on those anonymous officials leaking to the press.
Each year, the IFF brings together those who defend digital rights around the world - journalists, activists, technologists, policy advocates, digital safety trainers, and designers - in support of the following core goals:
Please join the Committee to Protect Journalists for a Q&A session with Edom Kassaye of the Zone 9 bloggers at Columbia Journalism School on January 26, 2017, from 12 to 2 pm. Along with four other bloggers from the Zone 9 collective, Kassaye was arrested and charged with incitement and terrorism in late April 2014. The charges were ultimately dropped, and Kassaye was released on July 8, 2015.
This event marks the launch of CPJ's #FreeThePress campaign, intended to raise awareness and take action on the cases of 10 journalists around the world imprisoned on anti-state charges such as terrorism.
WHAT: Q&A with Edom Kassaye of Zone 9
WHEN: Thursday, January 26, 2017, from 12 to 2 pm.
WHERE: Pulitzer Hall The Brown Institute, Columbia Journalism School, New York
Join Slate for a conversation with top editors in New York about how the news media can and should proceed to cover the Trump presidency. The panel will discuss strategies they are implementing at their outlets, and how journalists and media companies at large can play a bigger role in making sure that fact prevails over fiction in the coming months and years.
The Committee to Protect Journalists is hosting the workshop, "Press Freedom for Open Government, Opportunities in the OGP Framework." at the 2016 Open Government Partnership Summit. CPJ Executive Director, Joel Simon, is joined by other renowned panelists as they discuss press freedom and open government in this one hour discussion.
On December 6, join CPJ Advocacy Director Courtney Radsch at the Internet Governance Forum. The IGF is a multistakeholder platform that faciliates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the internet. On Monday, December 5 at 1P.M. Courtney is organizing a session on "Countering Violent Extremism and Human Rights Online."
In the wake of terrorist attacks around the world and the ongoing fight against ISIS and other violent extremist groups, preventing and countering violent extremism (CVE) has become a major policy agenda domestically and internationally. While governments have a legitimate interest in combatting terrorism, there is concern about the impact the CVE agenda is having on human rights online, particularly in the absence of compelling data that online CVE efforts are in fact stemming the flow of foreign fighters. Governments and public petitions have called for internet platforms to remove accounts and content that promote or support extremism, expanded surveillance and profiling online, and called for restrictions on encryption all under the banner of CVE. Marginalized and at-risk communities, journalists, and activists are at particular risk as authorities have enacted initiatives aimed at combatting extremism. A joint report by Special Rapportuers on freedom of expression have recognized the threats posed by CVE, but efforts need to be made to reconcile real security threats with respect for freedom of expression and press freedom online. This panel will explore this debate from various dimensions.
Join CPJ Program Director and Senior Americas Program Coordinator, Carlos Lauría for his presentation on Cuba at the COLPIN conference on Investigative Journalism organized by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) and Transparency International, and sponsored by OSF and UNESCO.
On Thursday, December 1, Carlos Lauría, CPJ's Program Director and Senior Program Coordinator, The Americas, will speak at the 159 Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Do you believe the free flow of information must be protected? Sign the #RightToReport petition and demand that President Obama immediately:
1. Issue a presidential policy directive prohibiting the hacking and surveillance of journalists and media organizations.
2. Limit aggressive prosecutions that ensnare journalists and intimidate whistleblowers.
3. Prevent the harassment of journalists at the U.S. border.
Or click here to see the full petition, and join leading journalists like Christiane Amanpour, The Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the AP Kathleen Carroll, and Arianna Huffington in signing on.
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