Jason Rezaian
speaker
511 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 May
Jason Rezaian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oftentimes female journalists.
Maria Ressa, a Nobel Prize-winning journalist from the Philippines.
Rana Ayyub, a Washington Post contributor from India.
It's all designed not only to silence the individual, but to silence others and to deter others from getting into this work.
Then there's this whole other element of the problem, which is economic and the business models of journalism.
You guys understand this very well here.
We deal with it all the time.
And I think the ecosystem of press freedom defenders, and when I say that, it's a big community of individuals and organizations.
is catching up to the problems at hand.
There was a time when a strong letter from a U.S.
senator was all that was required.
That's quaint.
Or a statement of condemnation.
Those things don't do anything anymore.
They take journalists prisoner because it's audacious.
because it's designed to scare people into silence.
So over the past few years, and recently at the Washington Post, been developing ways to support mostly journalists in exile, because there's been this tidal wave, thousands upon thousands of journalists, an almost endless number of instances of journalists who have either been imprisoned or have been forced to flee their homelands because of the work that they do, finding their ways to
to freedom in Europe, but oftentimes in the United States as well, then new hurdles for them when they get here.
I work with an NGO that handles a lot of the immigration challenges of people in those circumstances.
And we've been able to get what we call humanitarian parole, which is sort of like an emergency entry into the United States.
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