• by Ray Schultz , March 11, 2024

Condé Nast has formed a partnership with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in an effort to promote freedom and safety for journalists.  

The publisher will use its platforms to provide creative and advertising support linked to World Press Freedom Day on May 3.  

In addition, it announced it would kick off the partnership, by featuring CPJ in materials for attendees of the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. CPJ is also to be featured in other Condé Nast events throughout the year, and the publisher will participate in CPJ’s annual International Press Freedom Award dinner in November. 

“It goes without saying that journalism is under pressure around the world – from the business models we operate, to press freedom and safety,” says Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast.  

Lynch adds, “The Committee to Protect Journalists is a vital organization for many reasons, not the least of which is that even in the most trying times, in war and conflict, they are on the frontlines fighting for the rights of journalists to report news safely and without fear. Condé Nast has long been a supporter of CPJ and I’m thrilled that we are deepening our relationship with them.”  

In turn, CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg states that “Condé Nast is a world-renowned publisher with an over 100-year history of producing powerful journalism, from Vogue’s coverage of World War II through the eyes of celebrated photographer Lee Miller, to Vanity Fair’s exposé of the tobacco industry in the 1990s, to The New Yorker’s Emmy-award-winning virtual reality documentary on China’s ‘re-education camps.”