Committee To Protect Journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists, which is also known as CPJ, is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report news without fear of reprisal. Committee to Protect Journalists ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever journalists are attacked, imprisoned, killed, kidnapped, threatened, censored, or harassed. Committee to Protect Journalists' first advocacy campaign was held in 1982 by giving precedence to the idea that journalists around the world should come together to defend the rights of colleagues working in repressive and dangerous environments. At the time, three British journalists:Simon Winchester, Ian Mather, and Tony Prime were arrested in Argentina while covering the Falklands War. A letter from Committee to Protect Journalists Honorary Chairman Walter Cronkite helped spring them from prison. Every year Committee to Protect Journalists organizes International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous reporting, to honor journalists who have faced imprisonment, violence, and censorship. Committee to Protect Journalists was founded in 1981 by a group of U.S. correspondents.

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