Jonathan Rozen is a journalist and researcher.
Jonathan has over ten years of experience in the fields of political affairs and human rights, focusing on issues related to freedom of expression, technology, climate change, and conflict prevention. He currently works as a Senior Researcher with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), where he reports, conducts advocacy, and coordinates emergency responses for journalists across Sub-Saharan Africa. Jonathan holds a master’s degree in global affairs from the University of Toronto and a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from McGill University.
Since joining CPJ in February 2017, Jonathan has led numerous reporting and advocacy trips, including to Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Liberia, and Nigeria, where he covered national elections in 2019 and 2023. His investigations have tracked impunity for crimes against journalists, harms associated with surveillance, efforts to control information during conflict, and the censorship and criminalization 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.
Previously, Jonathan worked in South Africa and Mozambique with the Institute for Security Studies, assessing Mozambican peacebuilding processes. He also wrote on links between climate action and conflict prevention for the German think tank adelphi. He reported as a correspondent for IPS News from the U.N. Secretariat in New York and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 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.
He has been quoted in reporting by The Washington Post, Reuters, Voice of America, Columbia Journalism Review, World Politics Review, Global Investigative Journalism Network, The Cable, RFI, KPFA Radio, Coda Story, Arise TV, Daily Post Nigeria, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Daily Trust, Punch, This Day, Horn Observer, OpenNet Africa, International Journalists’ Network, The Conversation UK, West Africa Democracy Radio, and News Central TV.
His work has been cited or re-published by various other outlets and organizations, including Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Haaretz, Quartz, Forbes, The Intercept, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Access Now, Citizen Lab, Freedom House, Columbia Journalism Review, Daily Trust, Premium Times, News24, The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (formerly PTCIJ), Sahara Reporters, News Digest, Sunday Standard, Nigerian Voice, Paradigm Initiative, The Wire, Modern Ghana, MyJoyOnline, GNN Liberia, New Dawn Liberia, International Centre for Investigative Reporting, The Mantle, Global Peace Operations Review, Africa Conflict Monitor, and the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat.
Jonathan speaks English and French, and is HEFAT/HEAT trained.
(Arise News, Abuja, October 24, 2022)
