Call on the Obama Administration to respect journalists' right to gather and report the news in the digital age.
Join the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in supporting the #RightToReport. Sign the petition today!
As the face of journalism changes to reflect an increasingly digitised world, so should the government policies to protect the rights and freedoms of journalists and media workers who use digital platforms to carry out their work.
In the United States, however, new legislation and programs carried out by state agencies do little to respect these rights. Laws are emerging that permit blanket Internet surveillance, media professionals are becoming subject to increased police scrutiny, and whistleblowers are being targeted in addition to the journalists who tell their stories.
Increasing digital surveillance and intimidation in the United States and other western democracies not only has disastrous effects on domestic media freedoms, but it also appears to provide sanction to repressive governments around the world seeking to implement extreme restrictions on freedom of expression.
CPJ’s #RightToReport campaign aims to overhaul these troubling developments by demanding accountability and reform by the American government. The first stage of this initiative is to urge the Obama administration to release policy preventing the hacking and surveillance of journalists and media outlets.
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