CPJ To Honor Formidable Journalists With 2024 International Press Freedom Awards

By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: YouTube Screenshots New York, September 19, 2024 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Thursday announced that it will honor four exceptional journalists with its 2024 International Press Freedom Awards.  This year’s awardees, who cover Gaza, Guatemala, Niger, and Russia, have withstood extraordinary challenges to continue reporting on their communities while experiencing war, prison, government crackdowns, and the rising criminalization of their work. “CPJ’s International Press Freedom Awardees symbolize the vital work carried out by reporters everywhere to report facts in the face of fierce attempts to suppress truth,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “In what has been a devastating year for journalists and for press freedom, it is an honor to stand with them.” CPJ will posthumously honor Christophe Deloire, who served as director general of the press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), with the 2024& Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award, an award presented annually by& CPJ’s board of directors& in recognition of an individual’s sustained commitment to press freedom. Deloire led RSF for 12 years before his untimely death in June 2024. “Christophe Deloire was a tireless advocate for media freedom and a strong partner in our efforts to help journalists...