Opinion | For World Press Freedom Day, here’s our bipartisan call to protect journalists

Opinion: For World Press Freedom Day, here’s our bipartisan call to protect journalists

By Steve Chabot and Adam Schiff May 2 at 6:28 PM U.S. Reps. Steve Chabot and Adam B. Schiff are co-chairs of the Congressional Freedom of the Press Caucus.

On May 3, we mark World Press Freedom Day, an occasion to consider the indispensable role journalists play in a democratic society and to call attention to the hundreds of journalists around the world who are in prison cells, or have been attacked, injured or murdered, for the “crime” of reporting.

We see it in Myanmar, where two Reuters reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were sentenced to seven years imprisonment for their reporting on the genocide perpetrated against the Rohingya people. Violence and intimidation of journalists has also struck close to home. Last June, five staff members of the Capital Gazette were gunned down in their Annapolis newsroom. In its latest report on press freedom around the world, the group Reporters Without Borders downgraded the United States to a “problematic” country. Just as we decry violence against journalists in other countries, we must speak out against attempts to stifle and intimidate the free press within our borders.

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