More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since CPJ began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 129 journalists and media workers were killed, two-thirds of them by Israel.
Read CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549
I spoke to the @financialtimes.com about press freedom under Trump.
(TL;DR: Bleak)
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Palestinian journalists describe being systematically abused, beaten and starved in Israel prisons, according to a new report published by @pressfreedom.bsky.social.
Read more: cpj.org?p=562837
Publisher Jimmy Lai, founder of pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Lai, a British citizen, is 78. He will almost certainly die in prison unless the international community - especially the UK - does all it can to free him.
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Journalist safety in the US:
Protecting data and devices.
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Following escalating threats to the safety of journalists nationwide, CPJ and the International Women’s Media Foundation announced the launch of the U.S. Journalist Rapid Response Fund. The fund will debut in Minnesota with an initial contribution of $25,000 from CPJ and the IWMF. cpj.org?p=559776
"We’re past the fire alarm. We are at the fire."
@pressfreedom.bsky.social has spent 40 years addressing authoritarian regimes' threats to journalists. For the last 12 months we have been applying everything we learned over those four decades in the United States.
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Minnesota reporters recount ICE actions, community solidarity: ‘I know it’s going to be dangerous’ cpj.org?p=558564
Powerful piece from journalist Sheila Eldred on the challenges and importance of reporting from Minneapolis: "Never have I heard so much appreciation for what we do."
GEORGIA FORT: “Journalism is on trial. This should be alarming to the entire nation. I would ask every journalist: how did it feel to see your colleagues arrested for reporting the news?”
"Documenting what is happening in our community is not a crime."
Georgia Fort, speaking just after her release from federal custody, is right. Journalism is not a crime. The free press is constitutionally protected-something the current administration wants to ignore.
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"To me this is a little aggressive to just serve a warrant." Watch this with the sound up.
This is the kind of aggression experienced by journalists we work with in authoritarian and criminal regimes.
We @pressfreedom.bsky.social stand with Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.
#journalismisnotacrime
Our latest @pressfreedom.bsky.social statement on the arrest of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over their Minnesota protests coverage. As an international organization, we know that the treatment of journalists is a leading indicator of the condition of a country’s democracy...
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CPJ has warned about US press freedom for years.In April we said:"If we let the abnormal become normal, many more freedoms will be at risk–no matter what your politics”.The arrest of Lemon and Fort are a breach of their rights as journalists and an affront to all US citizens.
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America is not becoming that country. It is that country. We have been sounding the alarm for many years on this: cpj.org/special-repo...
📣 The U.S. government can’t control media content. 📺
Today, CPJ and @rsf.org are on site in Washington D.C. ahead of the Federal Communications Commission open commission meeting to call on Chair Brendan Carr to take politics out of the FCC.
"It’s so important to have a free press, and it’s nuts we aren’t paying more attention to it."
We @pressfreedom.bsky.social agree. Thank you Jimmy Kimmel.
It’s literally the job of columnists to have opinions. Sacking them for expressing their views not only chills the individual’s speech but free speech in general.
Our statement on Israel's killing of more journalists in #Gaza. "Israel’s killing of journalists continues while the world watches and fails to act firmly on the most horrific attacks the press has faced in recent history,” said CPJ’s Sara Qudah. “These murders must end now.”
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US senators have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio following last week's assassination of six journalists by Israel: “The absence of US government support for accountability efforts serves to undermines U.S. moral leadership and credibility.”
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Thinking of the remarkable journalist and editor Jose Rubén Zamora today on his 69th birthday, which he is unjustly spending behind bars for yet another year. We continue to demand his release.
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As his health deteriorates in a Hong Kong jail, Jimmy Lai’s detention is now a test of Keir Starmer’s seriousness about human rights – and the government’s willingness to defend its citizens and values abroad.
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In @independent.ie, @jodieginsberg.bsky.social & I argue the deliberate, systematic targeting of #Gaza’s journalists is not only an assault on individuals; it is an attack on truth & human rights.
Ireland must do more, urgently, to protect Gaza’s journalists.
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NEW: The Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
The 'Legitimization Cell' scoured Gaza for material to boost Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.
By Yuval Abraham
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So much of what we know about starvation in Gaza is because of reporting by Anas Al-Sharif. Israel targeted and killed him and his entire crew while they were in a press tent outside a hospital. I spoke with @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, head of the CPJ @pressfreedom.bsky.social for @slate.com.
Israel is murdering Gaza's journalists - and it's no longer even hiding it.
Me for @theguardian.com (they went with a different headline...).
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The prevention of international access, the killings of journalists, the targeting of media facilities, the punishment of outlets like Haaretz are part of a deliberate strategy to conceal what is happening in Gaza.
Me on the latest journalist killings by Israel.
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Our statement on the targeted killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif and colleagues: Israel is murdering the messengers.
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Israel just targeted and killed an entire news crew. This is not "just what happens" to reporters in war. Israel has killed more journalists in the 22 months since October 7 '23 than were killed WORLDWIDE in the 3 years between '20 and '22.
This is murdering the messenger.
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Devastated to hear of the killing by Israel of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif. This is the latest killing of a journalist whom Israel alleges to be a terrorist without providing any credible proof.
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