Gulnoza Said Email & Phone Number

Gulnoza Said is a journalist and press freedom advocate with over 20 years of experience in New York, Prague, Bratislava, and Tashkent. She currently heads the Europe and Central Asia program at the Committee to Protect Journalists where she manages a team of researchers, representatives and correspondents in the U.S. and across Europe/Eurasia. In her role, Gulnoza 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 politics, elections, media, religion, and human rights with a focus on Russia, Central Asia, and Turkey. She also worked in communications and public information for the United Nations Secretariat and the UNDP. Her op-eds, reports, and comments have appeared in the BBC, CNN, The Guardian, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS, Skynews, Voice of America, RFE/RL and regional media outlets such as Fergana, Eurasianet, and others, and she authored the Uzbekistan chapter in a book on the study of social entrepreneurship.

Listed skills include International Relations, International Development, Politics, Strategic Communications, and 46 others.

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  Program Coordinator, Europe And Central Asia

  Committee To Protect Journalists

  Sep 2016 - Present - New York, New York