Today, the Committee to Protect Journalists released its annual Impunity Index, which ranks countries unsolved journalist murders proportionate to their population. The index identifies countries wherejournalists are murdered regualarly and governments fail to solve the crimes. This latest report examines data from January 1, 2002 through December 31,2011.
For the fifth consecutive year, Iraq is ranked the worst with more than 90 unsolved murders, dwarfing the impunity of every other nation. Although noting that Iraq has been subject to an intense war, even now, as authorities claim stability, not one case has been brought to justice. In order to highlight these threats to journalists world wide, the State Department announced an initiative that will tell the stories of people who have been killed, jailed, or blocked from exercising free speech, selecting one person a day from now until World Press Freedom Day on May 3.
Corporations & Foundations
- The Belo Foundation
- Bloomberg
- Brokaw Family Foundation
- Citigroup Foundation
- CNN
- Copley Newspapers
- Cox Newspapers, Inc.
- Dow Jones Company
- Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation
- Forbes Inc.
- The Ford Foundation
- Goldman Sachs & Co.
- Herb Block Foundation
- John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
- Knight Ridder Newspapers
- Los Angeles Times
- Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation
- MediaNews Group Inc.
- Newsday
- Oak Foundation USA
- Open Society Institute
- Philip L. Graham Fund
- PR Newswire
- RealNetworks Foundation
- Reuters Group PLC
- Sony Corporation of America Foundation
- St. Petersburg Times
- Star-Ledger
- Time Warner Inc.
- Tribune Company
- UBS
- Vira I. Heinz Endowment
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- Web: www.cpj.org
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