COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS

The 'Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)' is an independent, nonprofit organization based in New York, New York, United States, that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists.
A group of U.S. foreign correspondents founded CPJ in 1981 in response to harassment from authoritarian governments.
CPJ organizes vigorous public protests and works through diplomatic channels to effect change. CPJ publishes articles, news releases, special reports, a biannual magazine called ''Dangerous Assignments'' [1], and an annual worldwide survey of press freedom called ''Attacks on the Press''. [2]
CPJ also administers the annual CPJ International Press Freedom Awards, which honors journalists and press freedom advocates who have endured beatings, threats, intimidation, and prison for reporting the news.
CPJ is a founding member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), a global network of more than 70 non-governmental organizations that monitors free expression violations around the world and defends journalists, writers and others who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.

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Directors

CPJ's board of directors includes prominent American journalists, including Christiane Amanpour, Tom Brokaw, Anne Garrels, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Gwen Ifill, Jane Kramer, Anthony Lewis, Dave Marsh, Kati Marton, Michael Massing, Victor Navasky, Andres Oppenheimer, Clarence Page, Norman Pearlstine, Dan Rather, John Seigenthaler, and Mark Whitaker.

See also

★ CPJ International Press Freedom Awards

★ List of journalists killed in Russia

External links

★ Committee to Protect Journalists website

★ International Freedom of Expression Exchange