World Press Freedom Committee

The World Press Freedom Committee "is an international umbrella organization that includes 45 journalistic groups -- print and broadcast, labor and management, journalists, editors, publishers and owners on six continents -- united in the defense and promotion of press freedom." 

"The World Press Freedom Committee has provided leadership for more than 25 years in the fight against licensing of journalists, mandatory codes of conduct, ordered tasks for journalists and other news controls." Interestingly, they state that they were "Originally created to oppose proposals for a restrictive “new world information and communication order". 

Directors

 * Ken Clark - Pacific Islands News Association, Fiji Television, Fiji
 * Barbara Cochran - Radio-Television News Directors Association - Washington, DC
 * Ann K. Cooper - Committee to Protect Journalists - New York, New York
 * Suki Dardarian - AP Managing Editors - Seattle, Washington
 * Diana Daniels - Inter American Press Association, Washington Post - Washington, DC
 * Linda K. Foley - The Newspaper Guild-CWA - Washington, DC
 * Ignacio M. Benito García - Asociación de Editores de Diarios Españoles - Madrid, Spain
 * Terry Harper - Society of Professional Journalists - Indianapolis, Indiana
 * Doan Viet Hoat - International Institute for Vietnam - Annandale, Virginia
 * Meg Hunt - National Federation of Press Women - Taylors, South Carolina
 * Michal Klima - Czech Publishers Association - Prague, Czech Republic
 * Jill Labbe - National Conference of Editorial Writers, Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Fort Worth, Texas
 * Marshall Loeb - Overseas Press Club - New York, New York
 * Tony Mauro - Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, American Lawyer Media - Washington, DC
 * Shigemi Murakami - Nihon Shinbun Kyokai - Tokyo, Japan
 * Geoffrey Nyarota - Harare, Zimbabwe
 * Curtis Prendergast - Bethesda, Maryland
 * David K. Rehr - National Association of Broadcasters - Washington, DC
 * John Schidlovsky - International Reporting Project at SAIS - Washington, DC
 * Edward Seaton - American Society of Newspaper Editors, The Manhattan Mercury - Manhattan, Kansas
 * Brian Steffens - National Newspaper Association - Columbia, Missouri
 * John F. Sturm - Newspaper Association of America - Vienna, Virginia
 * Leonard R. Sussman - Freedom House - New York, New York

Advisory committee
Source
 * Horacio Aguirre - Diario Las Americas - Miami, Florida
 * Marilyn J. Greene - Senior Advisor, WPFC, Arlington, Virginia
 * Allen H. Neuharth - The Freedom Forum - Arlington, Virginia
 * Rosemary Righter - The Times - London
 * Charles E. Scripps - Scripps Howard - Cincinnati, Ohio
 * Arthur Ochs Sulzberger - The New York Times Company - New York, New York

Contact

 * Web: http://www.wpfc.org