Nina Ognianova ( bg, Нина Огнянова) is a Bulgarian journalist and rights activist, coordinator of the Europe and Central Asia Program of the
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, New York, with correspondents around the world. CPJ promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journa ...
since 2006. Formerly a staff writer for the
International Journalists' Network, since 2007 she has been a prominent figure in the investigations of the murders of Russian, Central Asian and Turkish journalists. In September 2009 she published a report ''Anatomy of Injustice'' on unsolved journalist murders in Russia, and in October 2012 published ''Turkey's Press Freedom Crisis'', which investigates the anti-press campaign under Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the List of presidents of Turkey, 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Lis ...
. She has written numerous articles for major world newspapers; in September 2009 she authored an article "Getting away with murder in Russia:The unsolved killings of 17 journalists has had a chilling effect on the work of Russia's press" for ''
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
''.
References
External links
Blog of Nina Ognianova
Bulgarian women journalists
Living people
21st-century Bulgarian women writers
21st-century Bulgarian writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bulgarian women activists
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