CPJ chief warns journalist killings erode democracy and often precede wider rights abuses
Committee to Protect Journalists chief executive Jodie Ginsberg told France 24’s Annette Young that killing journalists is not only an attack on those who report the news. It strikes at the public’s right to know, at institutional accountability, and ultimately at the democratic foundations of society.
Ginsberg said the global death toll among media workers continues to rise. Alongside that toll, she described a deeper crisis: harassment, intimidation and violence against journalists becoming normalized, while those who carry out the attacks are still not held to account.
That impunity, she warned, is itself a driver of further violence. If killers of journalists are allowed to get away with murder, she said, that creates the conditions in which more such attacks follow — not only against reporters, but against the public’s ability to be informed and against society more broadly.
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