COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF PRESS FREEDOM ORGANIZATIONS

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Commonwealth Press Union (CPU)
Inter American Press Association (IAPA)
International Association of Broadcasting (IAB)
International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP)
International Press Institute (IPI)
North American Broadcasters Association (NABA)
World Association of Newspapers (WAN)
World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC)

One can picture the Coordinating Committee as a roundtable, and each member organization as a “knight.” Each knight comes representing a constituency (memberships) and the nine knights cooperate on projects and protests, jointly sponsor a Fund Against Censorship and receive information on press freedom trends and threats, through European representative Ronald Koven and each other. Since 1981 the group has met twice a year, with rotating hosts, to exchange information and coordinate activities. Each participating organization is represented by its chairman/president and its chief operating officer. WPFC administers the joint Fund Against Censorship.

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Chairman: Paul Steiger
Executive Director: Joel Simon
Purpose: To respond to abuses against journalists; to promote press freedom around the world. Membership: Founded in 1981 by journalists. Has 13 full-time staff and 5 researchers at New York headquarters. Directed by a 31-member board of prominent U.S. journalists.
Address: 330 Seventh Ave., 11th Fl., New York, N.Y. 10001, USA
Phone: (212) 465-1004
Fax: (212) 465-9568
E-mail: jsimon@cpj.org

Inter American Press Association (IAPA)
President: Enrique Santos Calderón
Executive Director: Julio Muñoz, Ph.D.
Purpose: Defends freedom of expression and press throughout the Americas. Promotes professionalism through a training institute.
Membership: 1,300 newspapers and magazines, combined circulation of more than 43 million.
Address: 1801 S.W. 3rd Ave., Miami, FL 33129, USA
Phone: (305) 634-2465
Fax: (305) 635-2272
E-mail: jmunoz@sipiapa.org

International Association of Broadcasting (IAB)
President: Luis Pardo Saínz
Director General: Dr. Hector Oscar Amengual
Purpose: The IAB was founded in 1946 as the Inter-American Association of Broadcasting. Its purpose is to consolidate principles of free expression, contribute to the cultural improvement of society and to defend the interests of private broadcasters.
Membership: IAB groups more than 17,000 private radio and television stations in the three Americas and Europe.
Address: Carlos Quijano 1264, C.P: 11.100 Montevideo, Uruguay
Phone: (598-2) 9011319 or 9031879
Fax: (598-2) 9080458
E-mail: mail@airiab.com

International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP)
Chairman: Chris Llewellyn
President and COO: Donald Kummerfeld
Purpose: Promote common editorial, cultural and economic interests of magazine publishers, print and electronic media. Activities focus on press freedom, intellectual property, information provision, freedom to advertise, freedom of distribution and environmental protection. Founded 1925, Paris.
Membership: 34 national magazine associations and 100 publishing and associate companies.
Address: Queens House, 55/56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ, UK
Phone: (44-20) 7404-4169
Fax: (44-20) 7404-4170
E-mail:  don@fipp.com

International Press Institute (IPI)
Chairman: Janne Virkkunen
Director: David Dadge
Purpose: The IPI’s primary purpose is the promotion and defense of press freedom in individual countries and worldwide - the global network of editors and media executives.
Membership: Approximately 2,000 editors, media executives and leading journalists from newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and news agencies from over 120 countries; also academics from communications institutions.
Address: Spiegelgasse 2/29, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Phone: (431) 512 90-11
Fax: (431) 512 90-14
E-mail: ddadge@freemedia.at

North American Broadcasters Association (NABA)
President: Leonardo Ramos Mateos
Secretary General: David Baylor
Purpose: NABA is a Toronto-based, international non-profit organization providing a framework for the identification, study and active solution of international issues affecting North American broadcasters and broadcasting.
Membership: Represents major broadcasting networks in Canada, the United States and Mexico and also acts as the official secretariat for the World Broadcasting Unions (WBU).
Address: P.O. Box 500, Station A
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5W 1E6
Phone: (416) 598-9877
Fax: (416) 598-9774
E-mail: info@nabanet.com

World Association of Newspapers (WAN)
President: Gavin O'Reilly
Chief Executive Officer: Timothy Balding
Purpose: Founded in 1948, WAN groups 57 newspaper publishers associations in 53 countries, individual newspaper executives in 90 nations, 17 national and international news agencies, a media foundation and 7 affiliated regional press organizations. It is a non-profit, non-government organization.
Membership: Represents more than 15,000 publications on the five continents.
Address: 25, rue d’Astorg, 75008 Paris, France
Phone: (331) 4742-8500
Fax: (331) 4742-4948
E-mail: tbalding@wan.asso.fr

World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC)
Chairman: Richard N. Winfield
Executive Director: Mark Bench
Purpose: Dedicated to the promotion and preservation of press freedom. It emphasizes monitoring of intergovernmental organizations considering free press issues. Provides training and assistance, extends self-help legal grants to help news media challenging government restrictions. It implements joint activities for the global Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations.
Membership: Coordination group of 45 journalistic organizations on six continents.
Address: 11690-C Sunrise Valley, Dr., Reston, VA 20191, USA
Phone: (703) 715-9811
Fax: (703) 620-6790
E-mail: freepress@wpfc.org or embench@aol.com