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On March 17, 2009, CPJ’s Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz was part of a panel discussion on press freedom in Sri Lanka hosted by the Center for International Media Assistance in Washington, D.C. Full video of the event is available at CIMA’s Web site.

CPJ’s Africa Program Research Associate Mohamed Keita was interviewed by UN Radio about Attacks on the Press in 2008 on March 6, 2009. Click here to listen to the interview in french.

CPJ’s Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz speaks in front of the US Senate Foreign Relations Middle East and South Asia subcommittee hearing on February 24, 2009. Also speaking at the hearing former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Lunstead and Anna Neistat of Human Rights Watch.

CPJ staff is interviewed about the release of Attacks on the Press in 2008 on Al-Jazeera, February 11, 2009.

CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon appears on the January 10, 2009 edition of the CBS Evening News to discuss the attacks against journalists amid the conflict in Gaza.

In the January 15, 2009, edition of The New York Review of Books, CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon writes about Daniel Ortega’s personal war against Nicaraguan journalist and television anchor Carlos Fernando Chamorro.  

CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon appears on CNN’s International Correspondents to discuss the increase in the number of online journalists in jail.  Embedded video from CNN Video

By Robert Mahoney This year, for the first time, online writers form the largest group among imprisoned journalists guardian.co.ukDecember 11, 2008If you are reading this online you are probably not in one of the countries – more than two dozen of them – that actively filter or block internet content. You’re lucky. But don’t take…

By Joel SimonPublished in On Earth, Winter 2009Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev seems to have recast himself as Russia’s Al Gore. In October, at a conference in Venice organized by his World Political Forum, he implored the journalists present to do a better job of reporting on climate change. “We need people to know where…

Bertil LintnerPublished in The Far Eastern Economic ReviewDecember 2008CPJ’s Asia Program Consultant Shawn W. Crispin is featured in this article about the current state of Thai leadership.