Attacks on the Press: In 1996

The Committee to Protect Journalists is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 it monitors abuses of the press and to promote press freedom internationally. CPJ is the only organization in the United States with a full-time staff devoted to documenting and responding to violations of press freedoms.Drawn from the first-hand research of CPJ's regional media experts, Attacks on the Press is the single most authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the status of press freedom around the world today, documenting in compelling detail hundreds of attempts to silence reporters and news organizations around the world. CPJ's staff writers examine press freedom conflicts in more than 100 countries and offer detailed information on over 700 cases on reporters, editors and broadcasters around the world. The book features insightful commentaries on the murders of journalists and examines broader press freedom crisis as well.By speaking out, or writing out, journalists are simply doing their jobs. It is where they do these jobs that sets certain journalists apart, wrote prize-winning essayist Roger Rosenblatt in the preface of last years' edition. Many American journalists drop in on dangerous places like Bosnia or Rwanda, stay a few weeks and go home. For most of the people in whom the Committee to Protect journalists is interested, the dangerous places are home.