By Sumit Galhotra/CPJ Asia Program Research Associate

With the dawn of the new year, India is looking ahead to a national election in May. Recent developments raise questions about the quality and quantity of independent news coverage of the polls as local media come under greater political influence.

By John Otis/CPJ Andes Consultant

The concept of network neutrality holds that all Internet traffic should be treated equal and that Internet Service Providers, or ISPs, should serve as free-flowing gateways for information rather than as filters. But in politically polarized Venezuela, neutrality is an increasingly rare commodity and...

By Robert Mahoney/CPJ Deputy Director

A prime minister says a newspaper has damaged national security and calls for its editor to be brought before Parliament; his government tells the same paper there has been “enough” debate on an issue and sends its security officials into the paper’s offices to smash...

By Sumit Galhotra/CPJ Asia Program Research Associate

Next week, the Committee to Protect Journalists will be honoring four journalists from around the world at the International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous reporting. As the awardees from Ecuador, Egypt, and Turkey make the journey to...

By Sara Rafsky/CPJ Americas Research Associate

Before his staffers, under government duress, took power drills and angle grinders to destroy company Macbooks in the newspaper’s basement, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger made sure to send Edward Snowden’s leaked documents to New York newsrooms for safekeeping.

That’s because, although a...

By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator

The New Express’s campaign to get Chen Yongzhou, 27, released for police detention last week attracted international attention, including CPJ’s.  Chen had been picked up October 18 on “suspicion of damaging commercial reputation” with a series of stores alleging financial mismanagement and corruption...

By Sandy Rowe/CPJ Chairman

On Thursday CPJ launched its first comprehensive examination of press freedom conditions in the United States. The report, “The Obama Administration and the Press: Leak investigations and surveillance in post-9/11 America,” highlights the growing threat to reporting on national security and similar sensitive government issues....

Sherif Mansour/CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator

Egypt is going through a tough transition and journalists are paying a considerable toll. Since the July 3 removal of President Mohamed Morsi, at least five journalists have been killed, 30 assaulted, and 11 news outlets raided. CPJ has documented a...

Joel Simon/CPJ Executive Director

Turkey is hardly a press freedom paradise, but what makes the country so exciting for journalists is the amount of news it generates on any given day. The domestic story is huge, with near-daily street protests, the booming economy beginning to sag, and the prospect of...

Sherif Mansour/CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator

Yesterday, the Committee to Protect Journalists launched a campaign calling for serious investigations into the deaths of eight journalists in Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011. CPJ hopes that the current military-led government will lead impartial and...

Jason Stern/CPJ Middle East and North Africa Research Associate

It has now been an entire year since Al-Hurra correspondent Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, and freelancer Austin Tice, of the United States, went missing in Syria. But the recent liberation of two freelance journalists held for months...

By Sue Valentine/ CPJ Africa Program Coordinator

The South African Broadcasting Corporation is in the news for not airing a politically sensitive documentary that details allegations of apartheid-era theft of public funds. The public broadcaster, which had commissioned the film, has also refused to sell the rights...

By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator

I'm in Kabul for several days, making the rounds of journalists' organizations and media houses. My brief is to see what, if anything, can be done to protect journalists after the withdrawal of NATO troops during and after 2014. But "post-2014" has much different connotations...

By Tanja Milevska/CPJ Guest Blogger

Macedonian journalists, intellectuals, artists, and free thinkers breathed a sigh of relief on June 21. The U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, visited Skopje and held one of the...

By Joanna Chiu/CPJ Contributor

In “Dark Clouds on the Horizon,” the Hong Kong Journalists Association’s latest annual report, the group warns that China is tightening its grip over Hong Kong media. The findings come at a time when attacks on a pro-democracy media group, Next Media,...

By Bill Sweeney/CPJ Editorial Director

Edward Snowden's global travels have highlighted the chasm between the political posturing and actual practices of governments when it comes to free expression. As is well known now, the former government contractor's leaks exposed the widespread phone and digital surveillance being conducted by...

By Jean-Paul Marthoz with reporting by Özgür Öğret/CPJ Staff

The coverage of the Taksim Square protests will not be remembered as a moment of glory for a number of Turkish mainstream media. While demonstrators were being tear-gassed and beaten by police a week ago, CNN Türk was...

By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator

Dear President Xi and President Obama,

You will both have received many public and private letters of advice prior to your meeting on Friday and Saturday in California. They will urge you to take up specific issues ranging from military and...

By Martin Schibbye and Mohamed Keita

The African Union celebrates 50 years in Addis Ababa against a backdrop of soaring infrastructure and booming economic growth which project the image of Africa rising. On the outskirts of the city however, stands a notorious prison filled with people who should not be...

By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator

In a better world, it is usually a time for joy when a prisoner nears his or her release date. Jailed Tibetan journalists and their families do not live in that world. They live in a crueler place, where freedom is a...