(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ will release its latest report on press freedom abuses around the world at a news conference beginning at 10 a.m. on 26 March 1998, at the National Press Club, 14th and F Streets N.W., in Washington, D.C. The 444-page “Attacks on the Press in 1997” is CPJ’s largest and most inclusive survey […]
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ will release its latest report on press freedom abuses
around the world at a news conference beginning at 10 a.m. on 26 March
1998, at the National Press Club, 14th and F Streets N.W., in Washington, D.C.
The 444-page “Attacks on the Press in 1997” is CPJ’s largest and most
inclusive survey ever, documenting in compelling detail nearly 500 attempts
to silence reporters and news organizations around the world. Compiled from
the research of CPJ’s professional staff of regional specialists, the
annually published “Attacks” series is widely recognized as the most
authoritative and comprehensive source of information on press freedom
conditions worldwide. Included in the new volume are accountings of murders
and imprisonments of journalists and surveys of the status of press freedom
in 117 countries.
Highlights of the book are special reports on how Mexico’s increasingly
independent press is challenging the status quo; how Jordan restricts press
freedom while working to cultivate its image as an emerging democracy; how
Hong Kong’s journalists are faring in the wake of the transfer of rule to
China; and how the media in Armenia and Azerbaijan cope with a surreal
climate of censorship. CPJ’s successful campaign to gain freedom for
imprisoned journalists in Turkey is chronicled, as well as its stepped up
efforts to free Christine Anyanwu and other jailed journalists in Nigeria.
Copies of “Attacks on the Press” will be available at the press conference.
Speakers will include CPJ Executive Director William A. Orme, Jr. and
members of CPJ’s program staff and board of directors.
