Committee to Protect Journalists
Eric Helms is an experienced professional in development and strategic partnerships, currently serving as the Director of Development, Strategic Partnerships at the Committee to Protect Journalists from August 2022 to March 2025. Prior to this role, Eric held the position of Deputy Director of Development at the same organization. Eric's background includes positions at Freedom House as a Senior Development Officer focusing on Institutional Giving from May 2021 to August 2022, and at Human Rights First, where responsibilities included serving as Director of Foundations and progressing through roles as Senior Grants Manager and Grants Manager from April 2016 to May 2021. Eric's earlier experience comprises a role as a Development Consultant at the Roma Education Fund in 2013 and as a Human Rights Consultant at the Arete Youth Foundation from November 2011 to November 2012. Academically, Eric holds a Master's degree in International Human Rights with a focus on Human Trafficking from the University of Denver, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Management and International Business from the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists, which is also known as CPJ, is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report news without fear of reprisal.Committee to Protect Journalists ensures the free flow ofnews and commentary by taking action wherever journalists are attacked, imprisoned, killed, kidnapped, threatened, censored, or harassed.Committee to Protect Journalists' first advocacy campaign was held in 1982 by giving precedence to the idea that journalists around the world should come together to defend the rights of colleagues working in repressive and dangerous environments. At the time, three British journalists:Simon Winchester, Ian Mather, and Tony Prime were arrested in Argentina while covering the Falklands War. A letter from Committee to Protect Journalists Honorary Chairman Walter Cronkite helped spring them from prison.Every year Committee to Protect Journalists organizes International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous reporting, to honor journalists who have faced imprisonment, violence, and censorship.Committee to Protect Journalists was founded in 1981 by a group of U.S. correspondents.