{{Short description|American nonprofit organization}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox organization | name = Committee to Protect Journalists | map = | map2 = | abbreviation = '''CPJ''' | formation = {{start date and age|1981}} | logo = Committee to Protect Journalists logo.svg | logo_upright = 0.5 | logo_class = skin-invert-image | type = 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.irs&ein=133081500 |title=Charity Navigator - IRS Data for Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=31 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906042859/http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.irs&ein=133081500 |archive-date=6 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> | tax_id = 13-3081500 | status = | purpose = Press freedom, journalist human rights and safety of journalists | headquarters = New York City, New York | location = US | coordinates = {{Coord|40.74769|-73.99327|type:landmark_globe:earth_region:US-NY|display=title,inline}} | region_served = International | membership = | language = | leader_title = President | leader_name = Jodie Ginsberg (2022–present)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cpj.org/2022/01/committee-to-protect-journalists-names-jodie-ginsberg-as-its-new-president/ |title=Committee to Protect Journalists names Jodie Ginsberg as its new president|date=10 January 2022}}</ref> <br />Joel Simon (2006-2021)<ref name="robertson">{{Cite news |last=Robertson |first=Katie |date=9 June 2021 |title=The head of the Committee to Protect Journalists offers a warning as he prepares to step down. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/business/media/the-head-of-the-committee-to-protect-journalists-offers-a-warning-as-he-prepares-to-step-down.html |access-date=13 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> <br />Ann Cooper (1998-2006)<ref>Jim Romenesko (7 June 2006) "Poynter Online Forums" ({{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114024726/http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=11487|date=14 January 2009}}). Poynter Institute.</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Ann Cooper on the arrest of Raman Pratasevich in Belarus | website=Shorenstein Center | date=25 May 2021 | url=https://shorensteincenter.org/ann-cooper-on-the-arrest-of-raman-pratasevich-in-belarus-2/ | access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref> | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = | key_people = | main_organ = | affiliations = International Freedom of Expression Exchange | budget = | website = {{official URL}} }}
The '''Committee to Protect Journalists''' ('''CPJ''') is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in New York City, with correspondents around the world. CPJ promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists. The ''American Journalism Review'' has called the organization "Journalism's Red Cross."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1510 |title=Journalism's Red Cross – Under-Staffed and Low-Profile, the Committee to Protect Journalists Rides to the Rescue of Reporters and Editors Who Run Afoul of Governments Hostile to the Press |author=Ricchiardi, Sherry |date=December 1997 |work=American Journalism Review |access-date=12 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018074855/http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1510 |archive-date=18 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Since the late 1980s, CPJ has published an annual census of journalists killed or imprisoned in relation to their work.<ref>{{cite web | title=Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Report | website=CivilsDaily | date=16 December 2022 | url=https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/protect-journalists/ | access-date=6 December 2024}}</ref>
==History and programs== The Committee to Protect Journalists was founded in 1981 in response to the harassment of Paraguayan journalist Alcibiades González Delvalle.<ref name="archivalcollectioncolumbia">{{cite web|title=Committee to Protect Journalists records, 1978-2008|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_7745809/|website=Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections |access-date=16 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623155229/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_7745809/|archive-date=23 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Its founding honorary chairman was Walter Cronkite.<ref name="archivalcollectioncolumbia"/> Since 1991, it has held the annual CPJ International Press Freedom Awards Dinner,<ref name="archivalcollectioncolumbia"/> during which awards are given to journalists and press freedom advocates who have received beatings, threats, intimidation, and prison for reporting the news.
Since 1992, the organization has compiled an annual list of all journalists killed in the line of duty around the world.<ref name="Gladstone">Gladstone, Rick (19 December 2016). "[https://nytimes.com/2016/12/19/world/americas/fewer-journalists-died-on-the-job-this-year-group-reports.html Fewer Journalists Were Killed on the Job This Year, Group Reports] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011221623/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/world/americas/fewer-journalists-died-on-the-job-this-year-group-reports.html |date=11 October 2017}}". ''The New York Times''. Retrieved 3 July 2017.</ref> For 2017, it reported that 46 journalists had been killed in connection with their work, as compared to 48 in 2016, and 72 in 2015, and that of those journalists killed, 18 had been murdered.<ref name="Gladstone" /> In 2024, CPJ reported that 124 journalists were killed, surpassing the previous high of 113 in 2007. Of those 124, 103 were in the line of duty, and 85 of them were by Israel, all but three of whom were Palestinian journalists.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jabakhanji |first=Sara |date=2025-02-12 |title='Most dangerous time,' Committee to Protect Journalists says after 2024 marks deadliest year |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/committee-to-protect-journalists-2024-killed-gaza-1.7457068 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250308220745/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/committee-to-protect-journalists-2024-killed-gaza-1.7457068 |archive-date=2025-03-08 |access-date=2025-12-30 |work=CBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-12 |title=2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel |url=https://cpj.org/special-reports/2024-is-deadliest-year-for-journalists-in-cpj-history-almost-70-percent-killed-by-israel/ |access-date=2025-12-30 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250124095118/https://www.voanews.com/a/report-china-israel-named-leading-jailers-of-journalists-/7939119.html |archive-date=2025-01-24}}</ref>
CPJ has also compiled a database that tracks journalists who have been killed, imprisoned or are missing from 1992 to the present. In 2024 they reported that China and Israel had the most journalists in jail, 50 and 43 respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Report: China, Israel named leading jailers of journalists |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/report-china-israel-named-leading-jailers-of-journalists-/7939119.html |access-date=2025-12-30 |last=Scott |first=Liam |website=Voice of America |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250421044825/https://cpj.org/special-reports/2024-is-deadliest-year-for-journalists-in-cpj-history-almost-70-percent-killed-by-israel/ |archive-date=2025-04-21}}</ref>
In 2008, the organization launched an annual "Impunity Index" of countries in which journalists are murdered and the killers are not prosecuted.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=30 October 2024 |title=Israel, Haiti top CPJ list of states where journalist murders go unpunished |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/30/israel-haiti-top-cpj-list-of-states-where-journalist-murders-go-unpunished |access-date=18 December 2024 |website=Al Jazeera}}</ref>
The organization is a founding member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), a global network of more than seventy non-governmental organizations that monitors free-expression violations around the world and defends journalists, writers, and others persecuted for exercising their freedom of expression. In May 2016, A United Nations committee voted to deny consultative status to CPJ, primarily led by countries with poor press freedom like China, Sudan and Russia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Press freedom watchdog denied UN credentials |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/press-freedom-watchdog-denied-un-credentials/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001032802/http://www.timesofisrael.com/press-freedom-watchdog-denied-un-credentials/ |archive-date=1 October 2017 |access-date=30 September 2017 |website=The Times of Israel}}</ref> The ban was overturned and CPJ was granted consultative status in July 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 July 2016 |title=U.N. body overturns rejection, accredits press freedom watchdog |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-press-idUSKCN1052C3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930231650/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-press-idUSKCN1052C3 |archive-date=30 September 2018 |access-date=30 September 2017 |newspaper=Reuters}}</ref>
In October 2016, the committee broke with its tradition of staying out of politics and warned about the danger it perceived Donald Trump posed to press freedom in the United States and around the world.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Margaret |date=10 September 2023 |title=How the Committee to Protect Journalists broke with tradition to protest Trump |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-the-committee-to-protect-journalists-broke-its-own-rule-to-protest-trump/2016/10/16/ec49e2c4-9252-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html |access-date=13 August 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
In June 2017, U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte was convicted of criminal assault in state court stemming from his assault of ''The Guardian'' political reporter Ben Jacobs the previous month.<ref>{{cite news | last1=Marcos | first1=Cristina | title=Gianforte Causes Stir After Becoming Newest House Member | url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/338813-gianforte-causes-stir-after-becoming-newest-house-member/ | date=21 June 2017 | newspaper=The Hill | access-date=22 June 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214182314/https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/338813-gianforte-causes-stir-after-becoming-newest-house-member | archive-date=14 December 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/greg-gianforte-assault-plea/index.html|title=Gianforte pleads guilty to assault in incident with reporter|author=Kyung Lah, Noa Yadidi and Carma Hassan|website=CNN|date=12 June 2017|access-date=12 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121234326/https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/greg-gianforte-assault-plea/index.html|archive-date=21 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/incoming-gop-congressman-greg-gianforte-to-plead-guilty-to-assault-on-reporter-1497280559|title=Incoming GOP Congressman Greg Gianforte Pleads Guilty to Assault on Reporter|last=Andrews|first=Natalie|date=12 June 2017|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=12 June 2017|issn=0099-9660|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214182256/https://www.wsj.com/articles/incoming-gop-congressman-greg-gianforte-to-plead-guilty-to-assault-on-reporter-1497280559|archive-date=14 December 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> As a stipulation of his settlement with Jacobs, Gianforte donated $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which said it would use the funds to support the new U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=8 June 2017 |title=Congressman-elect Gianforte apologizes to reporter for assault, to donate $50,000 to press group |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gianforte-apologizes-reporter-donate-50000-press-group-settle/story?id=47904086 |access-date=18 December 2024 |website=ABC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Feinberg |first=Ashley |title=A Crucial New Site Tracks Attacks on Press in the US |url=https://www.wired.com/story/us-press-freedom-tracker-site/ |access-date=18 December 2024 |magazine=Wired |issn=1059-1028}}</ref>
In July 2025, the committee urged international action to protect Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif and other journalists in Gaza, highlighting the deliberate risk faced by local reporters as the "last eyes and ears of the outside world" in Gaza.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CPJ calls for Anas Al-Sharif's protection in face of Israeli smears|url=https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/|website=Committee to Protect Journalists|date=24 July 2025|access-date=10 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=25 July 2025 |title=Al Jazeera condemns Israeli incitement against Gaza reporter Anas al-Sharif |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25/al-jazeera-condemns-israeli-incitement-against-gaza-reporter-anas-al-sharif |access-date=10 August 2025 |website=Al Jazeera}}</ref>
In September 2025, the CPJ along with IFEX and other press freedom organizations called on EU member states for a partial or full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in order to protect journalists in Gaza.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tzabiras |first=Marianna |date=2025-09-30 |title=CPJ and partners urge key EU member states to suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement |url=https://ifex.org/cpj-and-partners-urge-key-eu-member-states-to-suspend-eu-israel-association-agreement/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=IFEX |language=en-US}}</ref>
On 12 May 2026, the CPJ was added to the Russian government's list of "undesirable organisations".<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 May 2026 |title=Russia adds CPJ to its list of ‘undesirable organizations’ |url=https://cpj.org/2026/05/russia-adds-cpj-to-its-list-of-undesirable-organizations/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260520165226/https://cpj.org/2026/05/russia-adds-cpj-to-its-list-of-undesirable-organizations/ |archive-date=20 May 2026 |access-date=25 May 2026 |work=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en}}</ref>
=== Global Impunity Index === In 2008, the CPJ launched an annual '''Global Impunity Index''' of countries in which journalists are murdered and the killers are not prosecuted. The index is a ranking of the rate of the failure of countries to prosecute killers of journalists.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=30 April 2008 |title=Press Conferences: CPJ Executive Director Addresses Press Conference on Impunity Index |url=https://media.un.org/photo/en/asset/oun7/oun7673467 |url-status=live |website=United Nations Media Home}}</ref>
The index has become associated with CPJ's reporting banner ''Getting Away with Murder'', and has been used by news organizations, press-freedom groups, and international organisations as a reference point in debates about accountability for violence against journalists.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kilman |first=Larry |year=2017 |title=An Attack on one is an attack on all: successful initiatives to protect journalists and combat impunity |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000259402 |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=unesdoc.unesco.org |publisher=UNESCO |pages=49-51}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=al-Qadi |first=Fadi |date=2016-11-02 |title=Crimes against journalists: An epidemic of impunity |url=https://www.newarab.com/opinion/crimes-against-journalists-epidemic-impunity |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620134820/https://www.newarab.com/opinion/crimes-against-journalists-epidemic-impunity |archive-date=2024-06-20 |work=The New Arab}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gonzalez |first=Gabriel |date=2021-03-11 |title=A tribunal to fight impunity for killing journalists |url=https://www.dw.com/en/a-tribunal-to-fight-impunity-for-killing-journalists/a-59710156 |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref>
Early editions used a multi-year lookback and applied an inclusion threshold (countries generally had to reach a minimum number of unsolved cases to appear), which meant the index was not a complete list of every country with an unsolved journalist murder. Later on, the CPJ presented the index as a Global Impunity Index and published it as part of annual reporting packages on unresolved journalist killings. Publication was also timed to broader international advocacy moments, including the UN's International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-02 |title=Killing with impunity |url=https://www.rcmediafreedom.eu/Multimedia/Infographics/Killing-with-impunity |url-status=live |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Media Freedom Resource Centre OBCT |language=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=United Nations |title=International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists |url=https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-impunity-crimes-against-journalists |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=United Nations |language=en}}</ref>
In October 2025, the CPJ stated that it would pause publication of its Global Impunity Index while it reviews the tool and reorients its work on impunity toward other mechanisms such as developing targeted sanctions against perpetrators of crimes against journalists.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2025-10-30 |title=We can't let them get away with it |url=https://cpj.org/2025/10/we-cant-let-them-get-away-with-it/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> Critics have accused the CPJ of caving into political pressure and scrapping the index because Israel was going to top the rankings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Journalist fatalities worldwide match record high in 2025, media watchdog reports |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/2625872/amp |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Arab News |language=en}}</ref> The CPJ denied that pressure from donors and board members played a role in the decision.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Skwawkbox |date=2026-02-13 |title=Press freedom org accused of dropping 'Impunity Index' after Israel topped the list |url=https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/13/press-freedom/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Canary |language=en-GB}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Top 3 countries |- |2025 |Paused.<ref name=":1" /> |- |2024 |Haiti, Israel, Somalia<ref>{{Cite web |last=Irrawaddy |first=The |date=2024-11-01 |title=Myanmar Ranks 10th for Impunity in Killing Journalists |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-ranks-10th-for-impunity-in-killing-journalists.html |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=The Irrawaddy |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=C. P. J. |date=2024-10-30 |title=Haiti, Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, CPJ 2024 impunity index shows |url=https://cpj.org/special-reports/haiti-israel-most-likely-to-let-journalists-murders-go-unpunished-cpj-2024-impunity-index-shows/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Haiti, Israel most likely to let journalists' murders go unpunished, CPJ 2024 impunity index shows |url=https://latamjournalismreview.org/news/haiti-israel-most-likely-to-let-journalists-murders-go-unpunished-cpj-2024-impunity-index-shows/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center |language=en}}</ref> |- |2023 |Syria, Somalia, Haiti<ref>{{Cite web |title=Haiti joins list of countries where killers of journalists most likely to go unpunished |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2023/10/haiti-joins-list-of-countries-where-killers-of-journalists-most-likely-to-go-unpunished/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lock |first=Harry |date=2023-11-02 |title=International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2023 |url=https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/international-day-to-end-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists-2023/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Public Media Alliance |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tzabiras |first=Marianna |date=2023-10-31 |title=Global Impunity Index 2023: Nearly 80% of killings of journalists go unsolved |url=https://ifex.org/global-impunity-index-2023-nearly-80-of-killings-of-journalists-go-unsolved/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=IFEX |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2022 |Somalia, Syria, South Sudan<ref>{{Cite web |title=Document of the Day: 2022 Global Impunity Index Finds ‘Vast Majority’ of Murders of Journalists Go Unsolved |url=https://gijn.org/stories/document-of-the-day-2022-global-impunity-index-finds-vast-majority-of-murders-of-journalists-go-unsolved/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=gijn.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Killing with impunity: Vast majority of journalists’ murderers go free. 2022 Global Impunity Index |url=https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CPJ_2022-Global-Impunity-Index.pdf |url-status=live |website=Committee to Protect Journalists}}</ref> |- |2021 |Somalia, Syria, Iraq <ref>{{Cite web |title=Killers of journalists still get away with murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2021/10/killers-of-journalists-still-get-away-with-murder/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Higuera |first=Silvia |date=2021-10-28 |title=Mexico and Brazil again on CPJ's Global Impunity Index |url=https://latamjournalismreview.org/articles/mexico-and-brazil-again-on-cpjs-global-impunity-index/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center |language=en}}</ref> |- |2020 |Somalia, Syria, Iraq |- |2019 |Somalia, Syria, Iraq<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-12 |title=Mexico: Setbacks to freedom of expression in 2020 |url=https://www.article19.org/resources/mexico-setbacks-to-freedom-of-expression-in-2020/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=ARTICLE 19 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Murders of Journalists Go Unsolved |url=http://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2020/01/murders-of-journalists-go-unsolved/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=www.asisonline.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away with Murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2019/10/getting-away-with-murder-killed-justice/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2018 |Somalia, Syria, Iraq<ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=Guest |date=2018-10-30 |title=Impunity in the murders of journalists emboldens censorship – CPJ |url=https://acme-ug.org/2018/10/30/impunity-in-the-murders-of-journalists-emboldens-censorship-cpj/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=African Centre for Media Excellence}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away with Murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2018/10/impunity-index-getting-away-with-murder-killed-justice-3/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2017 |Somalia, Syria, Iraq <ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away with Murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2017/10/impunity-index-getting-away-with-murder-killed-justice-2/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=N. L. |date=2017-11-02 |title=India at 12th spot on CPJ list of nations where journalists are killed with complete impunity |url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/11/02/india-rank-cpj-journalists-killed-gauri-lankesh |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Newslaundry |language=en}}</ref> |- |2016 |Somalia, Iraq, Syria<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greenslade |first=Roy |date=2016-10-27 |title=13 countries where journalists have been killed with impunity |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/27/13-countries-where-journalists-have-been-killed-with-impunity |access-date=2026-02-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away With Murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2016/10/impunity-index-getting-away-with-murder-killed-justice/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2015 |Somalia, Iraq, Syria<ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away With Murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2015/10/impunity-index-getting-away-with-murder-3/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Onumah |first=Chido |date=2015-11-03 |title=Bangladesh, South Sudan join CPJ’s Global Impunity Index: Somalia tops list of countries where journalists are murdered and killers go free |url=https://www.chidoonumah.com/bangladesh-south-sudan-join-cpjs-global-impunity-index-somalia-tops-list-of-countries-where-journalists-are-murdered-and-killers-go-free/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20260214140240/https://www.chidoonumah.com/bangladesh-south-sudan-join-cpjs-global-impunity-index-somalia-tops-list-of-countries-where-journalists-are-murdered-and-killers-go-free/ |archive-date=14 Feb 2026 |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Chidoonumah.com |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2014 |Iraq, Somalia, Philippines<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-11-03 |title=Murdered journalists: 90% of killers get away with it but who are the victims? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/03/murdered-journalists-90-of-killers-get-away-with-it-but-who-are-the-victims |access-date=2026-02-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Road to Justice |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2014/10/the-road-to-justice-killing-journalists-impunity/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2013 |Iraq, Somalia, Philippines<ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away With Murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2013/05/impunity-index-getting-away-with-murder/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Morrison |first=Sara |title=CPJ’s Impunity Index updates |url=https://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/cpjs_impunity_index_updates.php |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Columbia Journalism Review |language=en}}</ref> |- |2012 |Iraq, Somalia, Philippines<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harlow |first=Summer |date=2012-02-21 |title=Journalists worldwide contending with violence, censorship and impunity, says annual CPJ report |url=https://latamjournalismreview.org/articles/journalists-worldwide-contending-with-violence-censorship-and-impunity-says-annual-cpj-report/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Attacks on the Press in 2012 - Afghanistan |url=https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/cpj/2013/en/90947 |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Refworld |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-02-14 |title=Attacks on the Press in 2012: Afghanistan |url=https://cpj.org/2013/02/attacks-on-the-press-in-2012-afghanistan/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2011 |Iraq, Somalia, Philippines<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-06-13 |title=Pakistan 10th on list of deadliest places for journalists: Report |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/188086/pakistan-10th-on-list-of-deadliest-places-for-journalists-report |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=The Express Tribune |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away With Murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2011/06/2011-impunity-index-getting-away-murder/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2010 |Iraq, Somalia, Philippines<ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away With Murder |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2010/04/cpj-2010-impunity-index-getting-away-with-murder/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-21 |title=2010 Impunity Index anounced by Committee to Project Journalists |url=https://humanrightshouse.org/articles/2010-impunity-index-anounced-by-committee-to-project-journalists/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Human Rights House Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2009 |Iraq, Sierra Leone, Somalia <ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away With Murder 2009 |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2009/03/getting-away-with-murder-2009/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2008 |Iraq, Sierra Leone, Somalia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting Away with Murder 2008 |url=https://cpj.org/reports/2008/04/getting-away-with-murder/ |access-date=2026-02-14 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |}
== Publications == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Years published !Name of report !Coverage |- |1982-1992 |CPJ Update (43 issues) |Initial print publication, launched the same year as CPJ's founding. |- |1987-2023 |Attacks on Press |Annual book: a worldwide survey of press freedom violations worldwide.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/attacksonpress190000unse |title=Attacks on the press, 1991 : a comprehensive worldwide survey |date=1992 |publisher=New York, N.Y. : The Committee |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-944823-08-8}}</ref> 1987-1990: Short survey 1991: Expanded to a narrative format with details about each case. 2024: Discontinued print edition; replaced by online reports specifically for 1) imprisoned journalists, 2) killed journalists, 3) journalists murdered with impunity. |- |1988-1991 |Backgrounder |Source<ref>{{Cite web |title=Backgrounder Reports |url=https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/archives/cul-7745809_aspace_fb7cd9a7d28aa5262cfc628c806c99eb |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections}}</ref> |- |1992-present |Annual list of killed journalists worldwide |Annual list of journalists killed in the line of duty globally. |- |1992-2002 |Dangerous Assignments (58 issues) |Print newsletter turned online magazine (in 1998) focusing on press freedom news.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dangerous Assignments |url=https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/archives/cul-7745809_aspace_d76418accc1368ad97a875e57808c32e |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to Dangerous Assignments |url=https://cpj.org/reports/1998/09/welcome/ |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |1996-2001 |Enemies of the Press |Top worst offenders of press freedom globally.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Enemies of the Press: The 10 Worst Offenders of 1996 |url=https://cpj.org/reports/1996/05/enemies96/ |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2008-2025 |Impunity Index |Countries where journalists are murdered with impunity. |- |2012-2014 |Risk List |Top countries where press freedom is in decline.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-02-12 |title=CPJ Risk List |url=https://cpj.org/2014/02/attacks-on-the-press-cpj-risk-list-1/ |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2015-2019 |10 Most Censored Countries |Top countries with the most direct and indirect government censorship of the press.<ref>{{Cite web |last=journalists |first=Top photo: Journalists in Myanmar cover their mouths with tape in protest at the country’s poor record of press freedom after the arrest of four |last2=Newspaper |first2=The Chief Executive of the |last3=Unity. |date=2015-04-21 |title=10 Most Censored Countries |url=https://cpj.org/2015/04/10-most-censored-countries/ |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2019-present |Online, interactive database |An expansion of the imprisoned and killed datasets, with a page for each journalist imprisoned, killed, or missing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Beiser |first=Elana |date=2019-11-07 |title=CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press |url=https://cpj.org/2019/11/cpj-deepens-database-of-attacks-on-the-press/ |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2024-present |In Focus reports |In-depth feature reporting about specific events and trends in press freedom worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-04-15 |title=In Focus Archives |url=https://cpj.org/in-focus/ |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> |}
Additionally, CPJ publishes [https://cpj.org/legal-resources-for-journalists/ safety and legal guides] for journalists, giving them practical advice and resources for dangerous assignments, as well as regular feature reports, letters, ==See also== {{Portal|Freedom of speech|Journalism}} *Citizen Lab *Democratic backsliding *Freedom of the Press Foundation *Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press *Reporters Without Borders *Safety of journalists
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
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