Lecture by journalist, press freedom advocate Gulnoza Said: we invite you to join

On April 18, Gulnoza Said, a journalist, press freedom advocate, and Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, will give a guest lecture for Karazin residents.

Gulnoza Said is a journalist and press freedom advocate with over 20 years of experience in New York, Prague, Bratislava, and Tashkent. At CPJ, she has conducted several missions to countries in Europe and Central Asia, and advocated for greater press freedom and the release of jailed journalists at forums including the U. S. Congress, the United Nations, and the OSCE. Before joining CPJ in 2016, she was a journalist and covered issues including elections, politics, media, religion, and human rights with a focus on Central Asia, Russia, and Turkey. She also worked in communications for the United Nations Secretariat and the UNDP. Her op-eds, reports, and comments have appeared in CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, PBS, NBC, Voice of America, RFE/RL, Fergana, Eurasianet, and other outlets, and she authored the Uzbekistan chapter in a book on the study of social entrepreneurship. Follow her on Twitter @gulnozas.

Expressing her support for the courageous Karazin students, the city of Kharkiv and Ukraine, Gulnoza Said emphasized the total absence of a free press in Russia. Gulnoza Said will be addressing the Karazin community talking about the activities of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), where she leads CPJ’s work on Europe and Central Asia and its readiness to help Ukrainian journalists in trouble in Ukraine and abroad. CPJ has issued safety guidelines for journalists covering events in Ukraine and is doing a lot of work to protect them.

The lecture is part of a series of lectures at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University "Lecture to Victory: World Speakers in Support of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University" and will be the ninth within this initiative.

Start of the event: at 16:00.

You can register for participation by following the link.

The meeting will be held on the Zoom platform.

A link to log into Zoom (where you can ask your questions live) will come in a separate email to all registrants.

You can also listen to the lecture on the university’s YouTube channel during a live broadcast.

We invite Karazenians to join us!