The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American

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organization based in

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, with correspondents around the world. CPJ promotes

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and defends the rights of

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s. The '' American Journalism Review'' has called the organization "Journalism's

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." Since the late 1980s, CPJ has published an annual census of journalists killed or imprisoned in relation to their work.

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The Committee to Protect Journalists was founded in 1981 in response to the harassment of Paraguayan journalist Alcibiades González Delvalle. Its founding honorary chairman was Walter Cronkite. Since 1991, it has held the annual CPJ International Press Freedom Awards Dinner, during which awards are given to journalists and press freedom advocates who have received beatings, threats, intimidation, and prison for reporting the news. Since 1992, the organization has compiled an annual list of all journalists killed in the line of duty around the world.Gladstone, Rick (19 December 2016).
Fewer Journalists Were Killed on the Job This Year, Group Reports
". ''The New York Times''. Retrieved 2017-07-03. For 2017, it reported that 46 journalists had been killed in connection with their work, as compared to 48 in 2016, and 72 in 2015, and that of those journalists killed, 18 had been murdered. In 2008, the organization launched an annual "Impunity Index" of countries in which journalists are murdered and the killers are not prosecuted. The organization is a founding member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), a global network of more than seventy non-governmental organizations that monitors free-expression violations around the world and defends journalists, writers, and others persecuted for exercising their

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. In May 2016, A United Nations committee voted to deny consultative status to CPJ, primarily led by countries with poor press freedom like China, Sudan and Russia. The ban was overturned and CPJ was granted consultative status in July 2016. In October 2016, the Committee broke with its tradition of staying out of politics and warned about the danger it perceived

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posed to press freedom in the United States and around the world. In June 2017, U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte was convicted of criminal

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in state court stemming from his assault of ''

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'' political reporter Ben Jacobs the previous month. As a stipulation of his settlement with Jacobs, Gianforte donated $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which said it would use the funds to support the new U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

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