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Series I: Board of Directors, 1981-1997
Series II: Chronological Files, 1984 November-1994
Series IV: CPJ Office Files, 1978-2004
Series X: International Press Freedom Award Dinners (IPFAD), 1991-2007, undated
Series XII: Organization Files, 1978-2002

Committee to Protect Journalists records, 1978-2009

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Series VII: Publications and Reports, 1982-2007

This series contains published newsletters, serial publications, reports, and other publications issued by CPJ. The collection's coverage of these publications is best before the mid-1990s, when CPJ began to regularly distribute publications on its website.

Subseries VII.1: Newsletters and Serial Publications, 1982-2007

This subseries includes CPJ's current and historical serial publications and newsletters:Attacks on the Press,Backgrounder,CPJ Update, andDangerous Assignments. These publications are arranged by title, and then chronologically.

Attacks on the Press


Box 9 1985-1989

Box 9 1990-1991 (English and Spanish Language), 1990-1991

Box 9 1992-1996, 1999, 2007, 1992-1996, 1999, 2007

Backgrounder Reports

(These are short reports on various countries)


Box 169 Folder 2 #1-8, 1988

Box 169 Folder 3 #9-13, 1989

Box 169 Folder 4 #14-17, 1990-1991 April

Box 169 Folder 36 Circular Letters, 1982-1983

Three circular letters for April 30, 1982, January 14, 1983, and November 28, 1983. Each is 2-3 pages in length. These are available on microfische only.

CPJ Update

(Newsletter, continued by Dangerous Assignments)


Box 8 Folder 8 List of Issues and Index for Issues 1-42, 1992

Box 8 Folder 9 to 15 Issues #1-43, 1982 July-1992 Fall (7 Folders), 1982

Dangerous Assignments

(Continues CPJ Update)


Box 9 Folder 1-2 Issues #44-48, 51-53, 55-58, 1993-1999 Spring (2 Folders), 1993-1999

(Two copies of all but #46 and 57-58)

Box 9 Folder 3 1999 Fall, 1999

Box 9 Folder 3 2000 Summer and Fall, 2000

Box 9 Folder 3 2001 Summer, 2001

Box 9 Folder 3 2002 Summer and Fall/Winter, 2002

Box 9 Folder 4 Dangerous Assignments: A Study Guide , 1991

Subseries VII.2: Reports and Other Publications, 1983-1999, 2008

This subseries contains books, reports, and other publications by CPJ that are not serial publications. These publications are arranged chronologically. These publications are final versions unless noted otherwise in the container list.


Box 169 Folder 5 South Africa and Zimbabwe: The Freest Press in Africa?, 1983 March

Box 169 Folder 6 Uruguay Report--"Uruguay: Does Democracy Include Freedom of the Press?",, 1983 June

Box 169 Folder 36 El Salvador and Guatemala: Chronology of Repression, 1983

35 pages. Available on microfische only.

Box 169 Folder 7 Press Freedom in the Philippines--Report, 1984 May

Box 169 Folder 8 Turkey Report (Original), 1985 November

(Turkey: "Civilized" Censorship Under The Sword of Damocles; this appears to be the mock-up copy to use for copying)

Box 169 Folder 9 Journalists Killed and Disappeared Since 1976 1986 December, 1976, 1986 December

Box 169 Folder 10 Still Confined: Journalists in "Re-Education" Camps and Prisons in Vietnam,, 1987 April

Box 169 Folder 11 Journalist Under Occupation: Israel's Regulation of the Palestinian Press,, 1988 October

Box 169 Folder 12 Enforced Restraint and Press Conditions in Turkey, 1990 December

Box 169 Folder 13 1991 The Soviet Media's Year of Decision, 1991 September, 1991, 1991 September

Box 169 Folder 14 In the Censor's Shadow: Journalism in Suharto's Indonesia, With Update on the Massacre in Dili, East Timor,, 1991 November 12


Box 152 Folder 2 Killing the Messengers: Lithuania and Latvia, 1991

(Report by Martin Walker, member of the 1991 CPJ Mission to the Soviet Union. There is no published copy in the collection.)


Box 8 Folder 16 Committee to Protect Journalists: The First Ten Years, 1992


Box 169 Folder 1 Journalists' Survival Guides--Former Yugoslavia, 1992 November-1994, 1992

Box 169 Folder 15 Front Line Reports, 1992 January

(Includes material on Yugoslavia, East Timor, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Pakistan)

Box 169 Folder 16 Bouche Pe: The Crackdown on Haiti's Media Since the Overthrow of Aristide (Original and 2nd Edition), 1992 September and 1993 November, 1992 September, 1993 November

Box 169 Folder 17 Don't Force Us to Lie: The Struggle of Chinese Journalists in the Reform Era,, 1993 January

Box 169 Folder 18 Introduction to CPJ (Taken largely from Attacks on the Press, 1992), 1993 June

Box 169 Folder 19 Silenced by Death: Journalists Killed in the U.S., 1993 June

Box 169 Folder 20 Tajikistan: A CPJ Press Freedom Report, 1994 October

Box 169 Folder 21 Silenced: The Unsolved Murders of Immigrant Journalists in the U.S., 1994 December

Box 169 Folder 22 On a Razor's Edge: Local Journalists Targeted by Warring Parties in Kashmir,, 1995 July

Box 169 Folder 23 Double Jeopardy: Homophobic Attacks on the Press 1990-1995 1995 October, 1990-1995, 1995 October

Box 169 Folder 24 Briefing on Press Freedom in Russia Before the Presidential Elections,, 1996 June

Box 169 Folder 25 Briefing on Press Freedom in Bosnia and Herzegovina Before the September 14 Elections,, 1996 September

Box 169 Folder 26 Clampdown in Addis: Ethiopia's Journalists at Risk (Original and Updated Reports),, 1996 October

Box 169 Folder 27 Hong Kong Special Report--"Freedom Under the Dragon: Can Hong Kong's Press Still Breathe Fire?",, 1997 September

Box 169 Folder 28 The Anatolian Archipelago: CPJ's Campaign to Free Turkey's Imprisoned Journalists An Interim Report,, 1997 October

Box 169 Folder 29 A Culture of Collusion: An Inside Look at the Mexican Press (William A. Orne, Jr., Editor),, 1997

Box 169 Folder 30 Paradoxes in the Caucasus: A Report on Freedom on the media in Azerbaijan and Armenia,, 1998 January

Box 169 Folder 31 Outliving Abacha: Six Nigerian Journalists' Prison Stories, 1999 February

Box 169 Folder 32 Falling Short: Olympic Promises Go Unfulfilled as China Falters on Press Freedom,, 2008