Jonathan R.

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ABOUT JONATHAN R.

Jonathan Rozen is a journalist and researcher with over a decade of experience in political affairs and human rights, focusing on issues related to technology, freedom of expression, climate change, and conflict prevention.As Program Coordinator with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Jonathan reports, conducts advocacy, and coordinates emergency responses for journalists across Africa. He supervises and edits daily reporting and has led numerous research and advocacy trips, including to Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Liberia, and Nigeria, where he covered national elections in 2019 and 2023. Jonathan is also a Technology and Human Rights fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.Jonathan\'s investigations have tracked impunity for crimes against journalists, harms associated with surveillance, efforts to control information during conflict, and the criminalization and censorship of expression online. He also managed CPJ’s project mapping the use of commercial spyware to target journalists and those close to them around the world.Jonathan serves as a Senior External Advisor with the International Justice Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Amigo Project, an effort between researchers from the City College of New York, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University to develop communications systems that function during Internet shutdowns.Previously, he worked in South Africa and Mozambique with the Institute for Security Studies, assessing Mozambican peacebuilding processes. He also wrote analyses for the German think tank adelphi on links between climate action and conflict prevention. He reported as a correspondent from IPS News from the U.N. Secretariat in New York and has written for Al-Jazeera English, Daily Maverick, The Continent, Africa Portal, International Peace Institute, and The Washington Post’s Press Freedom Partnership newsletter.