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Related Sites for Organizations Devoted to Freedom of the
Press
Committee to Protect Journalists
(CPJ)
Supports journalists who have been subject to human rights
violations. Serves as a liaison with press groups worldwide and
exchanges information. Releases reports on press conditions in
countries around the world and maintains a database and speakers'
bureau. Produces a publication, released in March each year,
titled, Attacks on the Press, a comprehensive country-by-country
breakdown of threats to free press.
Freedom
Forum
Supports journalism education for reporters around the world.
Also promotes free press rights through projects, programs and
publications and by funding grant proposals. Also operates the
Freedom Forum Media Studies
Center and the Freedom
Forum Journalists Memorial.
Freedom
House
Surveys free press and other political rights and civil liberties
throughout the world. Publishes a widely-disseminated and
respected annual report on relative freedom in countries around
the world. Holds seminars on freedom of the press and other civil
liberties topics. Maintains an archive on press freedom
issues.
International Center for Foreign Journalists
(ICFJ)
Formerly known as the Center for Foreign Journalists, the ICFJ
works to strengthen quality of journalism worldwide through
professional training and exchanges. In particular, ICFJ designs
fellowship programs for American and foreign journalists, the
most prominent of which is the Knight-Ridder International Press
Fellowship Program.
International Women's Media
Foundation (IWMF)
Works to strengthen the role of women in the news media worldwide
based on the belief that the press cannot be truly free unless
women enjoy the same opportunities as men to cover issues of
importance to the public. Strives to create networks among women
dedicated to journalism. Sponsors programs for women journalists
in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America and
the United States.
The Organization
of News Ombudsmen
With an international membership of 64 active and associate
members in the United States, Canada, Japan, Israel, Spain,
Brazil, Sweden, Ecuador and Paraguay, the Organization of News
Ombudsmen establishes and refines standards for the job of news
ombudsman or reader representative on newspapers and in other
news media; aids in the wider establishment of the position of
news ombudsmen on newspapers and elsewhere in the media; provides
a forum for the interchange of experiences, information and ideas
among news ombudsmen; develops contacts with publishers, editors,
press councils and other professional organizations, provide
speakers for special interest groups and respond to media
inquiries.
The Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has played a
role in virtually every significant press freedom case that has
come before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in hundreds of
cases in U.S. federal and state courts. The Committee has also
emerged as an international resource in free speech issues,
disseminating information in a variety of forms, including a
quarterly legal review, a bi-weekly newsletter, a 24-hour
hotline, and various handbooks on media law issues.
Reporters Sans Frontieres
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Français
Español
Deutsch
Which countries flout press freedom? Who are the criminal gangs
and fundamentalist groups that murder reporters? What are the
new faces of censorship? Reporters Sans Frontieres brings you
the answers, with the latest facts and figures, maps and copies
of banned newspapers. Also publishes a report on infringements
of press freedom throughout the world.
World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC)
As a coordination group of more than 30 national and
international news media organizations, supports freedom of the
press, especially in Eastern Europe and in the Third World.
Encourages news media everywhere to adopt high professional
standards and performance. WPFC also administers the Fund
Against Censorship, which investigates and protests governmental
attempts to censor the press and assists with legal challenges to
press censorship.
Issues of
Democracy
USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, February
1997