Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will release their annual Press Freedom Index tomorrow. The report ranks 174 different countries by their committment to press freedom. The Annual World Press Freedom Index for 2009 will include details on progress made by the U.S., alongside a number of high-profile journalist kidnappings.
RSF will hold a press conference at the Overseas Press Club to go over details of the report and what it calls “the precarious situation for journalists covering sensitive and often censored issues by governments.”
During the press conference, RSF will also look at how journalists maintain their safety while detained, some circumstances surrounding arrests, the role of the journalist as “neutral” observer, ethical dilemmas in getting the underreported story and the changing landscape of media in the new online social media age.
Clothilde Le Coz, Reporters Without Borders’ Washington Director,
will present the main findings from the 2009 INDEX
John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine, Moderator
Guest speakers will include:
A video of Euna Lee
Producer for Current TV and held in North Korea in 2009
Angela Korchega
Reporter at the US-Mexico border
Ali Alnaemi
Former newsroom manager for the New York Times bureau in Baghdad
John Solomon
Executive editor of The Washington Times
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Press Freedom Worldwide
Launch of the
Reporters Without Borders’
ANNUAL WORLDWIDE PRESS FREEDOM INDEX 2009
Time: 11am – 1 pm
Location: Overseas Press Club
40 West 45 Street – New York, NY 10036