Jon Williams
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Executive Director @rorypecktrust, non-profit protecting independent journalism across world. Board @pressfreedom. Ex MD @rtenews, Foreign Editor @abc & @bbc
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Joined April 2008
Thrilled to be joining @rorypecktrust. Values & purpose matter. @ClothildeR leaves big shoes to fill. Sadly, as #RPT approaches 30th anniversary, it’s vital work more need than ever. Excited to join the team supporting freelance journalists around the world. 1/3 #pressfreedom.
📢 Announcement. The Trustees of the Rory Peck Trust have appointed @WilliamsJon as its new Director. Jon, former Managing Director of RTÉ News and Current Affairs, will join the Trust in mid-April.
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Congratulations to @mcculld, brilliant broadcaster—clever, witty, cheeky. Congrats also to Claire. Radio—national & local—great Irish success story. The audience the real winner. Mornings will be a #mustlisten on both @RTERadio1 & @NewstalkFM .amp; @newstalk.
rte.ie
Broadcaster David McCullagh has been announced as the new presenter of Radio 1's Today programme as its current presenter Claire Byrne is set to leave RTÉ later this year.
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Looking forward to talking to my friend @BrianRoss on @SIRIUSXM 124 shortly about #Gaza and #Israel's targeting of journalists. At least 197 killed in past 22 months. It has to stop. #endimpunity #protectjournalists.
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RT @Reuters: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including four journalists, one of whom worked for Reute….
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How many more times? 4 journalists reported killed in #Israel|I air strike on #Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. Among them Hussam al-Masri, working for our friends at @Reuters. Thoughts with everyone at TR, Hussam’s family & those of the others who died. #protectjournalists.
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Proud to serve alongside @lpolgreen on board @pressfreedom. Her latest @nytimes says it all. #pressfreedom .via @NYTOpinion.
nytimes.com
The killing of Anas al-Sharif marks an ominous new phase of the war in Gaza.
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No better ally in fight for #pressfreedom than @AFP’s @philchet—as a journalist, cares about the story, as a leader, cares about his people. Important interview with @risj_oxford. #Gaza #Israel
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
“Some of our freelancers have lost 20 or 30 kilos. Their daily battle to find food and to feed their family is immense,” says Global News Director Phil Chetwynd.
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Looking forward to sharing Edinburgh stage with @HumzaYousaf at @ScotParl’s #FestivalofPolitics next week as we discuss journalists—and journalism—under fire. Grateful to @POScotParl & MSPs of all parties for their commitment to #PressFreeeom. #Journalism_Is_Not_A_Crime
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Just last week, I signed a letter with #AlJazeera demanding an end to the targeting of journalists by #Israel. It’s response? To murder #AnasAlSharif and four of his colleagues. #Gaza
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Our thoughts with team at #AlJazeera- the murders of Anas & colleagues means 11 of its journalists killed by #Israel in #Gaza. Also banned from operating in Israel & West Bank.
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If #Israel has credible evidence that #anasalsharif was a terrorist it should publish it. Failed to provide any. Long standing pattern of unsubstantiated Israeli smears which endanger journalists and undermine trust in journalism. #Gaza.
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Even when they are safe, the torment continues for #Gaza’s journalists. If their voice in silenced, so too is the pursuit of the truth. If you can, please help.
rorypecktrust.org
Our Executive Director writes: Over more than a decade—first at the BBC, then at ABC—I visited Gaza many times. Each trip began the same way: lunch at the al-Deira hotel, overlooking the sea, always...
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“People say I’m safe. But safety feels different when the people you love do not have it.” If you read one piece today, make it this. The Times’s correspondent on #Gaza, famine & family. #journalismmatters .
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“No journalist wants to become the story. If we do not act now, there will be no one left in #Gaza to tell anyone’s story”. @PressFreedom CEO @jodieginsberg on the Palestinian journalists being starved into silence. #PressFreedom
theguardian.com
A desperate situation has become catastrophic. If we do not act now, there will be no one left to tell anyone’s story
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“Our inaction will be recorded in history as a monumental failure to protect our fellow journalists and a betrayal of the principles that every journalist strives to uphold” - Al Jazeera #pressfreedom #Gaza
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For 21 months, Palestinian journalists have been the world’s eyes & ears to the horrors unfolding in #Gaza. Now, as the situation deteriorates further, they are being starved of food, threatening their reporting- and their lives. We need to do more than condemn. We need to act.
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This year, it could be you! But you’d better hurry. Click below to enter the 2025 #RoryPeckAwards. Nominations close on Thursday, July 10th, and winners announced at BFISouthbank on Wednesday, November 28th. Good luck!
rorypecktrust.org
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Very sorry to learn of #SandyGall’s death. Sandy presented the very first #RoryPeckAwards 30 years ago From #Vietnam to #Afghanistan, Sandy remained a reporter at heart. Our love and thoughts with @carlottagall & the rest of Sandy’s family. What a life./
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Farewell @joeliveline— newsrooms across #Ireland will be in mourning: Liveline usually good for a page lead, often more. A genius on-air, off-air the kindest and most generous colleague. Will never be another #JoeDuffy. GRMA Joe!
rte.ie
Joe Duffy has been hailed as a "broadcasting genius" with "an innate sense of decency, great timing and superb journalistic instincts" ahead of his departure from RTÉ Radio 1's Liveline later today.
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Nobody wants to leave their home—but this #refugeeweek, 122 million people have done so. 1 in every 67 people across the globe. But amid the heartache, am proud @UNRefugeesUK is helping ensure there are Fragments of Hope. You can too! #refugeeswelcome .
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