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Jodie Ginsberg
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Jodie Ginsberg
@jodieginsberg
CEO @pressfreedom. I am no longer actively monitoring or posting on X. You can find me on LinkedIn. Press requests - email [email protected]
- “The arrest of journalist Mohammad Zubair marks another low for press freedom in India, where the government has created a hostile and unsafe environment for members of the press reporting on sectarian issues.”
- Israel first said it lethally targeted a car carrying journalists in Gaza because there was a terrorist in the car. Now it says that the use by a journalist of a drone made it "look like" they were terrorists. Targeting of civilians is illegal. 1/2
- We are aware of the accusations currently being made by Israel against @AlJazeera journalists. Israel has a long history of smearing Palestinian journalists as terrorists without providing credible evidence, and with deadly consequences. 1/3🚨 The Committee to Protect Journalists is aware of accusations made by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against several journalists in Gaza accusing them of being members of militant groups. Israel has repeatedly made similar unproven claims without producing credible evidence.
- Free speech does not mean freedom from consequences of speech. This is true. However, if the consequences of speaking lawfully are that you or your family face threats, assault, jail, or loss of income - whether government or mob-sanctioned - then you don't have free speech.
- As a journalist, one of the first rules we were taught was never, ever to alter anyone’s quotes. It’s dishonest. And disempowering. If you don’t like the words someone uses, don’t use them. Or find your own. Don’t change theirs.
- So @twitter is censoring journalist @RanaAyyub’s account in India at the behest of the authorities whom her work seeks to hold to account…Meanwhile the relentless #onlineviolence she faces largely goes unpunished.
- UN Special Committee finds “Israel’s escalating media censorship, suppression of dissent, and targeting of journalists are deliberate efforts to block global access to information.” 1/2 ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
- This is the deadliest conflict for journalists that @pressfreedom has ever documented. More than 110 journalists killed by Israel since October 7. Journalists are not a target and a deliberate attack on any journalist constitutes a war crime.Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old. To view this media, you’ll need to log in to X. Learn more
- Rana Ayyub talks at the UN in New York for #WorldPressFreedomDay of the killing of Gauri Lankesh and the way in which online threats morph rinto violence offline. She says that the aim is to discredit you so that “by the time you are shot dead, the world doesn’t care much.”
- We @pressfreedom are pushing for al-Attar’s immediate evacuation. He is in a critical condition and needs urgent treatment that cannot be supplied in Gaza because of the destruction by Israel of Gazan medical facilities. The US - a defender of press freedom - should urge this.Al Jazeera cameraman Ali al-Attar was wounded in a bombing that targeted a police checkpoint near Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, where journalists’ tents were set up. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4i5af0
- Replying to @jodieginsbergJournalists use equipment like cameras and drones for their work. It does not make them terrorists and should certainly not make them targets. 2/2
- This is the deadliest week ever for journalists covering Israel-Palestine in the more than 30 years that @pressfreedom has been covering attacks on the press. In less than a week, 12 journalists have been killed, eight injured and two are missing.
- Still can't quite believe it... but beyond excited to be appointed the new head of @pressfreedom. Honoured to have been chosen to lead this outstanding organisation
