CPJ – Frank Smyth

Record Imprisonments, Impunity for Murders: Can Press Freedom Watchdogs Even Keep Up?

April 23, 2023/in Harvard International Review/by Frank Smyth

In recent years, CPJ has returned to using less precise language like “killings” to refer to murders whenever discussing them in the aggregate. It’s the kind of euphemism preferred by despots like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

In times of war, Pentagon reserves right to treat journalists like spies

July 31, 2015/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank Smyth

The Pentagon has produced its first Department of Defense-wide Law of WarManual and the results are not encouraging for journalists who, the documents state, may be treated as “unprivileged belligerents.”

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