Committee to Protect Journalists
Gari De Ramos currently serves as the Office Manager and Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer at the Committee to Protect Journalists since February 2023. Gari is also the Founder of Radical in Progress, established in December 2020. Prior experience includes roles such as Social Media Manager at Action for the Climate Emergency, Communications Intern at Political Research Associates, and various positions in communications and content creation at organizations like MoveOn, Our Climate Voices, and Worcester Magazine. Gari holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Clark University, a Master of Science in Communication from Clark University, and is pursuing a Master of Public Administration at NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Additionally, Gari has engaged in study abroad studies focused on journalism.
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Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists, which is also known as CPJ, is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report news without fear of reprisal.Committee to Protect Journalists ensures the free flow ofnews and commentary by taking action wherever journalists are attacked, imprisoned, killed, kidnapped, threatened, censored, or harassed.Committee to Protect Journalists' first advocacy campaign was held in 1982 by giving precedence to the idea that journalists around the world should come together to defend the rights of colleagues working in repressive and dangerous environments. At the time, three British journalists:Simon Winchester, Ian Mather, and Tony Prime were arrested in Argentina while covering the Falklands War. A letter from Committee to Protect Journalists Honorary Chairman Walter Cronkite helped spring them from prison.Every year Committee to Protect Journalists organizes International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous reporting, to honor journalists who have faced imprisonment, violence, and censorship.Committee to Protect Journalists was founded in 1981 by a group of U.S. correspondents.