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“This film does not show the execution of Jim.” That is the announcement printed at the beginning of Jim: The James Foley Story, and it’s one of the few comforting moments in this upsetting, moving, and complicated documentary. James Foley was an American photojournalist whose…
Journalists Carolyn Cole and Molly Hennessy-Fiske were reporting for the Los Angeles Times on the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis on May 30, 2020, when they were brutally attacked by the Minnesota State Patrol. Last week, they settled a lawsuit against the city for $1.2…
Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging.
Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, was taken into custody on Oct. 18 and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent while collecting information about the Russian military. Later, she was also charged with spreading…
On March 29, 2023, Evan Gershkovich arrived at a steakhouse in Yekaterinburg—a Russian city in the Ural Mountains—during a reporting trip, ready to meet with a source. Gershkovich didn’t know it would be the last thing he did as a free man: Russian security agents…
Before Evan Gershkovich made international headlines, he was a Princeton kid. During an interview, Ella Milman, Evan’s mother, remembers him as “very, very curious from an early age.” Mikhail Gershkovich, Evan’s father, recalls his son having “questions about everything” and a “desire to learn deeper.”
The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation announced today that Rep. French Hill (R-AR) will join Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) as a co-keynote speaker at its Foley Freedom Awards dinner on May 1st at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, which will also mark the…
A court in Russia on Monday ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending investigation and trial, in a further step in the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent and free speech.
Following is a statement by Emily Wilkins, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, on a Russian court’s extension of the detention of U.S. journalist Alsu Kurmasheva.
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned a Russian court’s decision on Monday to extend the pretrial detention of U.S.-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until June 5 and called for her immediate release.
Diane Foley’s son James was brutally murdered by ISIS in Syria in 2014 while working as a journalist covering the country’s civil war. She tells CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the interaction she had with one of the men involved in her son’s killing. Click here…
The Israel-Gaza war has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7 and Israel declared war on the militant Palestinian group, launching strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip. CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists and…
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