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Annual Report 2020 Committee to Protect Journalists Annual Report 2020 | 1 Annual Report 2020 Committee to Protect Journalists Annual Report 2020 | 1 Reuters photojournalist Carlos Barria takes cover behind a trash can during a protest in Minneapolis. Reuters/Adam Bettcher Dear CPJ Supporter, CPJ recognized early the challenges that the COVID-19 outbreak would present to journalists all over the world. The ability to pick up a camera, pen, or phone was replaced with the need for a mask, gloves, and disinfectant. Journalists also had to grapple with the reluctance of local governments to publicize health data—and the reprisal that could follow their reporting on it. CPJ quickly reoriented toward four global priorities: supporting journalists covering the pandemic, documenting violations against journalists reporting on it, pushing back on governments using the outbreak as a pretext to suppress rights, and advocating for the release of jailed journalists who could die if exposed to the virus. But while we’re focused on the present, we’re always mindful of the long term. We have identified at least 10 trends in the repression of media freedom worldwide, including laws against “fake news,” which could endure even as the pandemic fades. We had to confront these and other issues under the strain of our entire staff working remotely, but we were confident in their ingenuity. You will read more in these pages about their remarkable reporting, advocacy, and safety work. In late May, while the world was reeling from the COVID-19 outbreak, George Floyd, a 46-year- old Black man, died in police custody, leading to murder charges for four Minneapolis officers. Thousands of people marched in the streets, first locally and then across the nation and the world, calling for an end to police abuse and systemic racism. Journalists emerged from their homes to cover the demonstrations, and soon found themselves to be targets. CPJ and its partner, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, documented hundreds of press freedom violations in American cities, including arrests of, and assaults on, journalists. Police were responsi- ble for the vast majority of them. CPJ stepped up. We published safety advice and set up workshops and webinars to reach as many journalists as possible. We formed coalitions with media groups, calling on police, mayors, and governors to help ensure the rights of journalists were respected. And, in a rare move, our board of directors issued a public letter demanding the end to the assaults on journalists. “This is not a singular cry of protest,” the letter said. “As we continue the investigation of the anti-press complaints, we intend to pursue justice for journalists who were attacked or unjustly detained.” The attacks on journalists covering protests in the United States was shocking to many. But for nearly four decades, CPJ has reported on press freedom violations amid protests in places like Egypt, Turkey, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and India. Our documentation serves as a foundation for our advoca- cy, and we continue to support journalists under threat in American cities and around the world. Thank you for standing with us in our defense of journalists. We couldn’t do it without you. Cover photo In New York, a journalist reports Joel Simon amid protesters calling for an end to Executive Director systemic racism and police abuse. CPJ/Jonathan Rozen 2020: Defending the Press Committee to Protect Journalists Annual Report 2020 | 3 CPJ is headquartered in New York with offices in Washington and Brussels and a safety team based in Europe. We also have a network Kyrgyzstan Albania CPJ condemned the death of reporters based in Abuja, Bangkok, Berlin, Bogotá, Brussels, Following criticism from CPJ in prison of Azimjon and other watchdogs, President Askarov, who was serv- Istanbul, London, Managua, Mexico City, Nairobi, New Delhi, Ilir Meta cited the right to free ing a life term in prison expression and vetoed bills that on fabricated charges. Rio de Janeiro, Taipei, and Vilnius. would censor online news outlets. Iraqi Kurdistan Philippines Authorities publicly CPJ continues to support Maria Slovakia stated they would not Ressa, founder of Rappler, who shut down the broad- faces prison for a wrongful United States CPJ advocacy helped win caster NRT following conviction. Separately, our convictions in the 2018 murders CPJ’s reporting on their advocacy helped win convic- Amid protests against racism of Ján Kuciak, an investigative intention to do so. tions of perpetrators of the and police brutality, CPJ issued reporter, and his fiancée. 2009 Maguindanao massacre. safety advisories and conducted consultations with journalists. Bahrain Advocacy by CPJ and Guatemala other groups led to CPJ in March published a a jailed journalist report with recommendations being moved out of for the country’s new presi- solitary confinement, where he was placed dent, Alejandro Giammattei, Cameroon to improve press freedom. after reporting Nicaragua Authorities disclosed that Samuel on COVID-19 CPJ helped 100% Noticias, a Wazizi died in military custody in the prison. news outlet led by our 2019 in 2019. CPJ is fighting for justice Sri Lanka press freedom award winners, in his case and to free journal- In a mission to the country regain access to its YouTube ists still jailed in Cameroon. in early 2020, we learned of accounts and archives. journalists’ concerns about impunity and self-censorship under President Rajapaksa. Ethiopia CPJ’s public and private advocacy with regional officials contributed to the release of two journalists and a media Annual Report 2020 Table of Contents worker detained for months. Documenting COVID: Press on the frontlines 4 The COVID Crackdown: What we see 16 U.S. Protests: Press as targets 6 Journalist Assistance: 'What should I do?' 18 U.S. Protests: Scenes from Minneapolis 8 Awards 20 Confronting COVID: Digital security 10 Supporters 22 Voices from the Ground: Journalists on what they learned 12 Financial Report 26 Advocacy: #FreeThePress 14 CPJ Board and Staff 28 Documenting COVID-19: Press on the frontlines Committee to Protect Journalists Annual Report 2020 | 5 A video journalist wears a face mask in Beirut in March. AFP/Patrick Baz A journalist films a nurse at a hospital in A photographer films a Red Cross Rome in April. blood bank in Bogotá in April. AFP/Alberto Pizzoli Reuters/Rodrigo Garrido AFP/Camila Diaz Press on the frontlines As the pandemic spread globally, journalists contended with a range of challenges. On these pages, you can see the lengths to which journalists went to do their jobs in El Salvador, Kenya, Lebanon, Colombia, Italy, and Thailand. A photojournalist works during a press conference in San Salvador in April. AFP/Yuri Cortez A reporter broadcasts live during A Bangkok-based AFP photographer a lockdown in Nairobi in May. wears protective gear. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya AFP/Lillian Suwanrumpha US Protests: Press as targets Committee to Protect Journalists Annual Report 2020 | 7 Two photos, taken on the night of June 2, show AP videojournalist Robert Bumsted negotiating with, and being shouted at by, police while he and other AP journalists were covering the protests in New York. AP/Wong Maye-E U.S. protests: Press as targets In the early hours of May 29, Americans locations across 35 states—were reported violent protesters. We issued a safety an unusual step, CPJ’s board of directors watched CNN reporter Omar Jimenez re- by early August to the U.S. Press Freedom advisory and a checklist for commission- published an open letter to local and state porting live from protests in Minneapolis, Tracker, which CPJ co-launched with the ing editors, and conducted workshops officials, asking them to take immediate Minnesota. Police approached. “We Freedom of the Press Foundation in 2017. to get our tips to reporters across the action. can move back to where you’d like,” the CPJ chairs the Tracker’s advisory board. country. Amid COVID-19, we also advised journalist said calmly, holding up his press journalists on working while social We focused on local authorities because badge. “Just tell us where you want us to Most of the attacks involved law enforce- distancing. we knew it was unlikely that press freedom go. We will get out of your way.” ment. Journalists said police singled them would have support at the federal level, out for assault or hit them with rubber ‘Just tell us where you as President Trump continued to harass Then, on live TV, police arrested Jimenez bullets or pepper spray even after they and attack the press. In a report published and his crew. identified themselves as press. Dozens want us to go. We will get in April, authored by former Washington were arrested. out of your way.’ Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie, Amid an outcry, the CNN journalists Jr., CPJ found that Trump’s tactics to were quickly released. But hundreds more CPJ worked closely with the Tracker to CPJ pushed for improved practices and undermine journalists’ credibility have press freedom violations followed during find and report each violation—docu- accountability—from police, mayors, been grievously effective—especially nationwide demonstrations against the mentation that would help inform our and governors. We joined more than 100 dangerous in an election year and during death in Minneapolis police custody of advocacy and others’. Meanwhile, our organizations in a letter to authorities a deadly pandemic. Globally, such rhetoric George Floyd. In fact, more than 600 Emergencies team answered journalists’ in Minnesota, urging them to ensure emboldens repressive leaders to abuse press freedom incidents—in more than 70 questions about equipment, tear gas, and journalists’ rights were upheld. And, in their own media. US Protests: Scenes from Minneapolis Committee to Protect Journalists Annual Report 2020 | 9 Scenes from Minneapolis Demonstrations erupted in Minneapolis in late May, after George Floyd died in police custody, leading to murder charges.
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