Committee to Protect Journalists CEO Jodie Ginsberg in conversation with formerly imprisoned journalists Alsu Kurmasheva and Omar Radi. In May 2023, Radio Free Europe editor Alsu Kurmasheva flew for ...
Jodie Ginsberg
Jodie Ginsberg is the chief executive officer of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). A journalist by profession, Ginsberg joined CPJ in 2022 from Internews Europe, where she was chief executive officer.
Ginsberg began her career as a graduate trainee with Reuters news agency and worked as a commodities reporter in London before taking up a posting as a foreign correspondent in Johannesburg, South Africa. She subsequently worked as Reuters’ chief correspondent in Ireland, and then bureau chief for the U.K. and Ireland. In 2014, Ginsberg was appointed chief executive of London-based freedom of expression group Index on Censorship, which she led until 2020.
An internationally respected campaigner on issues of media freedom and freedom of expression, Ginsberg is a regular speaker on journalist safety and issues involving access to information. She serves on the boards of The Trust for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford, and as a Council member of IFEX, the international network for freedom of expression organizations.
Ginsberg has a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City St George’s, University of London.
Nathan Thrall will be interviewed by Jodie Ginsberg about his 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.
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