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Join our team! CPJ is currently #hiring a Specialist Editor, MENA, to write, edit, and publish a range of content aligned with CPJ’s press freedom mission. This role is based in New York City or remote. 🗓️ Deadline is May 26. Apply:
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Join our team! CPJ is currently #hiring a Specialist Editor, Europe and Central Asia, to write, edit, and publish a range of content aligned with CPJ’s press freedom mission. This role is based in New York City or remote. 🗓️ Deadline is May 26. Apply:
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Join our team! CPJ is currently #hiring a Senior Director of People and Culture to lead the continued development of its human resources function. This role is a hybrid position based in New York City. 🗓️ Deadline is May 19, 2025. Apply today:
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Join our team! CPJ is currently #hiring a Specialist Editor, Asia-Pacific, to write, edit, and publish a range of content aligned with CPJ’s press freedom mission. This role is based in New York City or remote. 🗓️ Deadline is May 26, 2025. Apply:
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RT @CPJMENA: #Tunisia: @pressfreedom calls on Tunisian authorities to immediately grant medical care to jailed journalist Chadha Hadj Mbare….
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Hundreds of Belarusian journalists live in exile, with more than 60 under investigation or facing criminal charges in cases that were opened after they left Belarus, according to CPJ research. Meet three exiled journalists facing criminal cases⤵️.
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Fyodar Pauluchenka, editor-in-chief of learned he was placed on Russia’s wanted list in March, about six months after his parents and daughter were summoned for interrogation by the Belarusian KGB.
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CPJ spoke with 15 Belarusian journalists facing criminal cases and found a pattern of intimidation of their families, opaque investigations, property seizure, and conviction. Read their stories: #FreeThePress.
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Want the latest news and views in #PressFreedom and #JournalistSafety from around the world, delivered straight to your inbox?📥. Subscribe to CPJ’s weekly newsletter, The Torch:
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Today, eight years after the murder of Javier Valdez Cárdenas, CPJ’s #Mexico Representative Jan-Albert Hootsen joined a gathering at the US embassy in Mexico City to demand the extradition of Dámaso López Serrano, who is currently in the US and has been identified by Mexican
Jan-Albert Hootsen de CPJ habla a 8 años del asesinato de Javier Valdez frente a la Embajada de Estados Unidos en la Ciudad de México @jahootsen @cpjamericas
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Journalists in Gaza told CPJ they face intimidation, threats, and assaults by Hamas — abuses that often go unreported due to fear of retaliation. Read their stories:
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CPJ is deeply alarmed and calls for Hamas to end its repression of the press and be held accountable for these violations. Journalists must be free to report without fear of violence, harassment, or retaliation. Read more:
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An independent media is vital for democracy. Access to information enables all people to make decisions and hold the powerful to account. A world without journalism is a world without truth. #JournalismMatters
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“Russian journalist Anna Politkovskay faced endless opposition and threats to her life. This has become a reality for far too many journalists.” — Maxine Peake, the actor who plays Politkovskaya in the new film, #WORDSOFWAR. Read her op-ed in The @guardian:
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Join our team! CPJ is currently #hiring a Senior Director of People and Culture to lead the continued development of its human resources function. This role is a hybrid position based in New York City. 🗓️ Deadline is May 19, 2025. Apply today:
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