Jodie Ginsberg

Jodie Ginsberg is a British journalist and the chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a position she has held since 2022. Previously she worked at Reuters and Internews.

Among the issues she has worked on is raising awareness of the threats and risks experienced by Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip.

Education Ginsberg received a B.A. in English literature from Pembroke College, Cambridge and a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.

Career Ginsberg began her career in 2000 as a graduate trainee at Thomson Reuters, where she began as a commodities reporter. She later worked as a foreign correspondent in Johannesburg, South Africa, focusing on the financial sector.

In 2014, Ginsberg was appointed CEO of Index on Censorship, a London-based freedom of expression group, which she led until 2020. Ginsberg succeeded Daniel Bruce and served as CEO for Internews Europe, a part of the Internews alliance.

In February 2025, she criticized US President Donald Trump for saying that the press is "the enemy of the people". In October she wrote about the threat to how the "public’s right to know" was real in the United States.