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CPJ submission to UN shows significant media repression in Georgia - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, July 31, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and the Media Advocacy Coalition of Georgia have submitted a report on the state of press freedom and journalist safety in Georgia to the U...

#Georgia is taking an authoritarian turn under the ruling Georgian Dream party. CPJ and the Media Advocacy Coalition of Georgia have submitted a report on the state of press freedom and journalist safety in Georgia to the #UNHRC ahead of January’s 51st UPR session. Read more: cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-...

As U.S. govt data becomes vulnerable the political manipulation, the work of journalists, digging into people’s reality and verifying the facts, will become increasingly important yet also perilous. A well informed public is undesired in autocracies. #PressFreedom is your freedom.

These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren't experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA's 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.

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.

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#JournalismMatters

Three Years Detained in Guatemala A public service initiative from The Washington Post to promote press freedom worldwide.

“[José Rubén Zamora] says that he sees his imprisonment as part of his job as a journalist.” — CPJ Americas Regional Director José Carlos Zamora on the 3rd anniversary his father's arbitrary detention

More in the @washingtonpost.com Press Freedom Partnership Newsletter:

"We are standing here, all of us hungry, because the Israeli occupation has prevented aid from entering."

🚨CPJ urges global leaders to act now: to protect the Palestinian press, ensure accountability, allow international media access, and finally allow them to eat and rest 🚨

#VoicesFromGaza

"Sunday marks 50 days that journalist Mario Guevara has been in law enforcement detention after his June 14 arrest for covering a protest ... a sad milestone in his case and for press freedom in the United States." — Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ's U.S., Canada, and Caribbean program coordinator

The free press, reporting the facts.
#ThisIsJournalism 👇

Three Years Detained in Guatemala

"..the strongest action is sanctions — sanctions against people who attack freedom of the press and journalists." - @josecarloszamora.bsky.social regarding his father's outrageous imprisonment for his journalism in #Guatemala.
#ZamoraLibre #FreeZamora

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#ThisIsJournalism 👇

Anna Gomez’s Lonely Fight As the FCC’s sole Democrat, she’s been outspoken about protecting the First Amendment. Getting her way has been tough.

“We are supposed to be this technical expert body that calls balls and strikes fairly and independently, but instead we are being weaponized for political retribution and ideological purity,” she told @liamjscott.bsky.social .
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Opinion | Trump’s Campaign to Coerce Advertisers Into Backing Conservative Media The administration seeks to coerce advertisers into using conservative media.

“The Trump Administration has been open about using its power to quash political opposition. So perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the administration is trying to stop advertisers and brands from boycotting right-leaning businesses,” Julia Angwin writes.

YouTube video by Committee to Protect Journalists Voices from Gaza - Islam Al Zaanoun

See directly, what Palestinian journalists in #Gaza are saying.
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REMINDER: International media is blocked from independent, unimpeded access to Gaza. The journalists there are starving, along with the rest of the civilian population. This affects the flow of factual information about the reality in Gaza, and creates a void ripe for alt realities. #PressFreedom

Journalists covering the aid air drops say they have been warned by Israel not to film Gaza from the air or the air drops will stop. (Do they not want us to see the scale of the damage?)

“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”

Disrupted, Throttled, and Blocked The 50-page report, “Disrupted, Throttled, and Blocked: State Censorship, Control, and Increasing Isolation of Internet Users in Russia,” documents the impact of the government’s increasing technologi...

Today, @hrw.org released a report documenting growing isolation and pervasive censorship that internet users face in #Russia.
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Foreign journalists step up push for access to Gaza, express fear for hungry colleagues With international media still locked out of the Strip, conflicting narratives and a deepening humanitarian crisis fuel a war of misinformation that may only grow murkier

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Today marks 1,095 days since the initial arbitrary detention of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora🚨CPJ, along with partner organizations, continue to demand his immediate release, the full restoration of his fundamental human rights, and an end to his political persecution.
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Palestinian journalists in Gaza ‘being starved’, media watchdog says Committee to Protect Journalists says reporters are losing consciousness from hunger and are at risk of Israeli attacks

“All of the journalists we have worked with…feel deeply the responsibility to report accurately and swiftly what is happening inside Gaza and are now struggling to do that in real time because they’re being starved,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @financialtimes.com.
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Opinion | You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next. Trump’s actions against civil society harm us all.

“Because civil society organizations exist outside of government, we rely on them to fight official abuses of power,” writes Vanita Gupta, a former U.S. associate attorney general. “That of course is exactly why they make such a fine target for the president.”

Family, supporters urge release of Spanish-language journalist in ICE custody A Spanish-language journalist remains in federal immigration detention after being arrested while covering a protest near Atlanta on June 14.

Mario Guevara is the only journalist jailed in the U.S. for doing his job.

“He chased stories that mattered, stories ... about people who usually go ignored,” said his daughter Katherine Guevara in the press conference hosted by CPJ and partners. Read more in @apnews.com⤵️

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CPJ, 35 others urge Israel to allow free movement of journalists in and out of Gaza - Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ joined 35 members of the International News Safety Institute in a July 25 letter calling for Israel to respect the freedom of movement of journalists.  The joint letter called for Israeli authorit...

NEW ⚡ CPJ joined 35 members of the International News Safety Institute calling for Israel to respect the freedom of movement of journalists.

#LetThemIn #LetThemOut #Gaza #PressFreedom

Read the full letter: cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-...

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Gaza is starving. So are its journalists | Jodie Ginsberg A desperate situation has become catastrophic. If we do not act now, there will be no one left to tell anyone’s story

“If we do not act now, there will be no one left in Gaza to tell anyone’s story. And that silence – those deaths – will be on us,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social‬ writes in an op-ed for ‪@theguardian.com‬.

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"We are standing here, all of us hungry, because the Israeli occupation has prevented aid from entering."

🚨CPJ urges global leaders to act now: to protect the Palestinian press, ensure accountability, allow international media access, and finally allow them to eat and rest 🚨

#VoicesFromGaza

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

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"The U.S. government's decision to withdraw from UNESCO—which has a mandate to protect journalists and press freedom—is a clear declaration of disdain for facts and for the public's right to be informed." — @gypsyrights.bsky.social, CPJ's Chief Global Affairs Officer

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

🚨 "To the stewards of our nation’s great cultural and commercial institutions: Don’t dupe yourselves. The illusion that you are smarter than the strongman, that you’ll outmaneuver him with silent cleverness, is just that — an illusion. Now, more than ever, your principled leadership matters."

Al Jazeera calls for global action to protect Gaza’s journalists Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.

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