CPJ: Press Freedom Reports 2000

Free-Fire Zone, by Joel Simon and Carlos Lauría
In Tijuana, a drug war ensnares the press and claims the life of
a muck-raking editor.
Posted: November 10, 2004

Versión en español

Promises and the Press, by Adam Posluns with Alexis Arieff
In Togo, journalists are skeptical but see opportunit in the regime’s
bid to shed sanctions.
Posted: October 20, 2004

Version française

Fragile Freedom, by Julia Crawford
Unrest shatters press freedom gains in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with attacks and imprisonments surging yet again.
Posted: September 14, 2004

Version française

In China, New Journalism and New Threats, by Sophie Beach
With China’s press becoming more market-oriented, journalists are reporting more aggressively on crime and corruption–and are facing violent retribution for their work as a result.
Posted: August 24, 2004

Taking Sides, by Carlos Lauría and Jean-Roland Chery
Under Haiti’s transitional government, journalists–especially those who supported former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide–remain at risk in a politcally polarized environment.
Posted July 26, 2004

At Voice of America, changes prompt concerns about independence, credibility,
by Frank Smyth
Posted July 13, 2004

¡Libertad para Vázquez Portal!
Manuel Vázquez Portal is one of 29 journalists–one-third of Cuba’s independent press corps–who along with 46 members of the opposition, were arrested, tired and convicted during 3 weeks in March and April 2003 while the world’s attention was focused on the war in Iraq. The journalists were each given prison sentences from 14 years to 27 years.
Posted February 2004

Out of Sight, by A. Lin Newman.
Borrowing a page from the U.S. playbook, the Indonesian military is restricting and controlling coverage of their war in the restive
province of Aceh.
Posted July 16, 2003

Permission to Fire, by Joel Campagna and Rhonda Roumani
About 100 journalists were staying in Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel during the Iraq war. CPJ investigates the shelling of the hotel that caused the deaths of two journalists and injured three others.

Crackdown on the Independent Press in Cuba
28 journalists arrested in 3 days and sentenced to 14 to 27 years in prison.Posted May 2003

Conflict in the Gulf
Information and links to articles about the Iraq war, one of the deadliest conflicts ever for journalists.
First posting: February 25, 2003

World’s Worst Places to be a Journalist
Posted on World Press Freedom Day, May 3.

Versión en español

Versão em portugués

On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations
A practical guide for journalists working in dangerous situations.
Posted March 2003.

Free Joshua
Prominent Eritrean journalist Fesshaye Johannes, known as Joshua, has been in prison since 2001.

The Phillipines: Elusive Justice, by A. Lin Neumann
Two witnesses have identified a journalist’s murder, but in a city of warlord politics and rampant corruption, the suspect remains at large.

From Dangerous Assignments, Fall 2002. Click here to download PDF version of full magazine.

SPECIAL COVERAGE:
Venezuela’s Continuing Crisis
Ongoing reportage of the plight of journalists caught in the bitter political struggle between supporters and opponents of mercurial president Hugo Chávez Frías. Posted December 2002

SPECIAL COVERAGE:
The Case of Carlos Cardoso
CPJ follows the slow progress of justice after the murder of a prominent and fearless Mozambican journalist.
Posted November 2002

Undoing Press Freedom in Namibia, by Adam Posluns
Namibian journalists worry that President Nujoma is tightening his grip on the media.
Posted October 2002

Back in the U.S.S.R., by Alex Lupis and Richard McGill Murphy
Although Uzbekistan’s president, Islam Karimov, has told the United States that he supports press freedom, old, repressive habits die hard
Posted October 2002

9-11: Looking Back, Looking Forward, by the staff of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A year after September 11, CPJ looks at the impact of U.S. rhetoric and actions on press freedom worldwide.
Posted September 2002

Not Again, by Lloyd Mudiwa
Amid repeated threats of imprisonment, a Zimbabwean journalist tells of his time behind bars.
Posted August 2002

Identity Crisis, by Yves Sorokobi
After years of war and civil unrest, peace and elections have given Sierra Leone’s journalists a new set of issues to face.
Posted August 2002

Cannon Fodder, by Sauro González Rodríguez
In the current battle between the Venezuelan media and President Hugo Chávez Frías, journalists are being used as ammunition.
Versión en español

Posted August 2002

On a Rampage, by Wacuka Mungai
Since President Robert Mugabe was re-elected, the situation for journalists in Zimbabwe has grown progressively worse.
Posted July 11, 2002

 The Silence, by Montserrat Solano Carboni
A year later, the murder of a popular Costa Rican journalist remains unsolved.
Versión en español
Posted July 5, 2002

Picking Up the Pieces, by Joel Campagna
Israeli troops destroyed several Palestinian broadcast outlets during the West Bank offensive. Was it an attempt to silence the press?
Posted June 13, 2002

Progess Denied, by Alex Lupis
Even with Milosevic in jail, Serbia and Bosnia remain dangerous for the independent press.
Posted June 26, 2002

The Murder of Carlos Cardoso, by Yves Sorokobi
Versão em portugués
The assassination of a prominent journalist in Mozambique raises some troubling questions.
Posted May 2002

Attacks against journalists in the West Bank and Gaza since September 2000
Documented cases.
First posted April 2002

CPJ Mourns the Death of Daniel Pearl
Background and analyses of the tragedy by Ann Cooper, Terry Anderson, Joel Simon, and Clarence Page. Posted February 22, 2002

Burma Under Pressure: by A. Lin Neumann
How journalism survives in one of the world’s most repressive regimes.
Posted February 13. 2002

Twentieth Anniversary of CPJ
“Censoring the New War,” by Ann Cooper; “Argentine Prison Diary,” by Simon Winchester; “CPJ: In the Beginning,” by Michael Massing.
Posted February 2002

See No Evil: An Interview with Anna Politkovskaya.
by Emma Gray. A Russian journalist is forced to flee after reporting on Chechnya.
Posted November 13, 2001

Iran: A Press Freedom Fact Sheet. by Hani Sabra.
Posted October 2001

Between Two Worlds: By Joel Campagna.
Qatar’s Al-Jazeera satellite channel.
Posted October 2001

Absurd Press Laws from Around the World
Research by Edith Tsouri. Illustrated by Béatrice Coron
Posted October 2001

Covering the New War:
Recent developments, frontline reporting, Washington view,
and more.
First posted September 2001

Stop Signs: Syria’s press showed signs of life after Bashar al-Assad succeeded his iron-fisted father last year, but the thaw proved fleeting. By Joel Campagna.
Posted September 2001

Bad Press:
Paramilitary leader Carlos Castaño a mortal threat to Colombia’s journalists.
by Frank Smyth.
Versión en español Posted September 2001

Azerbaijan: A Press Only So Free
by Alex Lupis and Olga Tarasov.
Posted September 2001

China: Running in Place.
The Chinese government says it wants journalists to investigate corruption. Is it serious?
By Sophie Beach.
Posted August 2001

The Sound of Silence by “Adele Lotus”
Uzbekistan has one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world, as the author learned when she launched her journalism career in Tashkent.
Posted July 25, 2001