This World Press Freedom Day, slain journalists like Simon Cumbers and Dom Phillips remind us why freedom of the press is everyone’s freedom, writes Jon Williams.
In a shaded wood outside Bayeux in Northern France, a series of white memorial stones record the names of more than 2,000 journalists who paid the ultimate price while reporting on assignment since 1994. Among them are fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, daughters and sons as well as friends who never came home. Bayeux was the first town in France to be liberated at the end of World War II.
The majority were in Gaza, but journalists have been killed in every corner of the world, from Ukraine and Honduras to Sudan and the Philippines. A near record number of media personnel also languish in jail. CPJ’s annual prison census found 320 journalists were behind bars as of December 1, 2023, the second highest total on the organization’s record. What’s more, it’s not just journalists on the frontline of this fight.
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