Shazdeh Omari
Shazdeh Omari is CPJ's news editor. Former copy chief for The Village Voice, she has worked as a reporter and editor in the United States and Greece. Omari was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, where she learned to read, speak, and write Urdu.
CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2015
CPJ’s annual International Press Freedom Awards and benefit dinner honored courageous journalists from around the world on November 24, 2015, in New York City. (Courtesy of CNN) Profile videos and speeches by the 2015 awardees are available: Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently: video profile and speech Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque (“Zunar”): video profile and speech Zone…
Turkey imposes ban on media coverage of Iraq hostage crisis
Istanbul, June 18, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a Turkish court’s decision on Monday to censor media coverage of a hostage crisis in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Last week, insurgents led by the Al-Qaeda splinter group Islamic State in Iraq and Sham abducted at least 80 Turkish citizens, including 49 consulate…
CPJ Annual Press Freedom Awards 2013
23rd Annual Ceremony and Dinner To benefit the Committee to Protect Journalists Four journalists from Ecuador, Egypt, Turkey, and Vietnam were honored on November 26, 2013, at the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 23rd annual International Press Freedom Awards for their work in defiance of repression and censorship. Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, presented the…
Paul Steiger
2013 CPJ Burton Benjamin Memorial Awardee Paul Steiger is president and editor-in-chief of ProPublica, a New York-based non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism, a position he assumed beginning January 2008. Steiger was previously editor-at-large at The Wall Street Journal, having stepped down in May 2007 from a 15-year stint as managing editor and vice president of…
Video: 1,000 Journalists Killed
2013 CPJ International Press Freedom Awards CPJ’s “1,000 Journalists Killed” premiered at the 2013 International Press Freedom Awards ceremony. The video highlights the death of Sky News cameraman Mick Dean in Egypt, marking the 1,000th journalist killed since CPJ began documenting journalist fatalities in 1992. It also tells of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the…
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Preface
Technology has democratized news publishing, rattling regimes that see their survival dependent on control of information. Video footage of repression from Burma to Syria to Egypt dramatically illustrates the benefits of Internet platforms and social media. Yet the Arab uprisings of 2011 also demonstrate the urgent need for providers and users of digital tools to…
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Abolishing Censorship
Even as trade and new systems of communication turn us into global citizens, the information we need to ensure accountability often stops at national borders. New platforms like social media are valuable tools, but the battle against censorship is hardly over. By Joel Simon
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Regulating the Internet
Legislation for Internet security can quickly turn into a weapon against the free press. Cybercrime laws are intended to extend existing penal codes to the online world, but they can easily be broadened to criminalize standard journalistic practices. By Danny O’Brien
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Profiles in Freedom
How does one negotiate the choice to stay and report potentially dangerous news, rather than take a less risky assignment, leave the profession, or flee the country? The recipients of the 2011 International Press Freedom Awards explain. By Kristin Jones