Committee to Protect Journalists

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.5 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

22

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Committee to Protect Journalists   (CPJ)

    EU Transparency Register

    370649919011-72 First registered on 02 Oct 2015

    Goals / Remit

    The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. CPJ ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever journalists are attacked, imprisoned, killed, kidnapped, threatened, censored, or harassed.

    Main EU files targeted

    Safety of journalists, press freedom, freedom of expression and digital freedom

    Address

    Head Office
    330 7th Ave 11th floor
    New York 10001
    UNITED STATES
    EU Office
    Residence Palace
    International Press Centre Room 3253, Block C
    Brussels 1040
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 17 Jun 2019

    Name Start date End Date
    Tom GIBSON 19 Aug 2023 16 Aug 2024
    Mr Thomas Gibson 02 Aug 2019 01 Aug 2020
    Mr Thomas Gibson 04 Jul 2018 01 Jul 2019
    Mr Thomas Gibson 20 May 2017 19 May 2018

    Complementary Information

    The EU Representative and Advocacy Manager works full time on the EU while the Advocacy Director (Global) and Europe and Central Asia program coordinator work on EU advocacy as part of their broader portfolios.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Mr Tom Gibson (EU Representative and Advocacy Manager)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Ms Courtney Radsch (Advocacy Director)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    Other financial info

    CPJ accepts no governmental or intergovernmental funding.

    Attached is a copy of CPJ's Annual Report 2018 which includes an overall view of the organisation's work and global budget: https://cpj.org/about/CPJ.2018.Annual.Report.pdf

    The figure specified for the total budget (13.b above) is EUR 6,719,655. This is a rough equivalent to USD 7,537,606 (which is the figure from CPJ's latest annual report and includes the total expenditure for the organization in 2017). This budget is administered to staff and offices around the world.

    Please note however that the budget of the EU Representative in Brussels (and for those activities relating to the register) is between EUR 50,000 and EUR 99,999 (approximately EUR 85,000 a year).

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    Balancing Act: Press freedom at risk as EU struggles to match action with values (Publication Sept 29, 2015)

    Press freedom reporting and advocacy missions to EU and European countries

    Regular alerts, statements and blogs about attacks on journalists and other press freedom issues

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    22 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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