{"id":274345,"date":"2019-04-29T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiSWh0dHBzOi8vY3BqLm9yZy9ibG9nLzIwMTkvMDQvZXRoaW9waWEtYWJpeS1haG1lZC1wcmVzcy1mcmVlZG9tLXJlZm9ybS5waHDSASRodHRwczovL2Nwai5vcmcvYmxvZy9hbXAvMDMwNTgxLmh0bWw?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:33:34","slug":"cpj-under-abiy-ethiopias-media-had-more-freedom-but-challenges-remained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274345","title":{"rendered":"CPJ: under Abiy, Ethiopia\u2019s media had more freedom but challenges remained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019 the Committee to Protect Journalists reported from Addis Ababa that Ethiopian media were enjoying unprecedented room to publish, with new papers on the street and formerly banned outlets sitting beside state reporters at briefings.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CPJ: under Abiy, Ethiopia\u2019s media had more freedom but challenges remained\" \/>\n<p>Journalists still complained about weak access to officials. CPJ warned that legal reform, security-force habits, and hate-speech politics could reverse the opening if Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government treated press freedom as a temporary gift rather than a right.<\/p>\n<p>The honeymoon framing aged badly. Later years brought internet blackouts, arrests, and wartime information control that made the 2019 CPJ caution read less like worry and more like early diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>As media-rights reference, the CPJ assessment remains a dated baseline for measuring how far Abiy Ahmed\u2019s regime drifted from its own reform slogans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2019\/04\/ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-press-freedom-reform\/\">CPJ<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Abiy, Ethiopia&#8217;s media have more freedom but challenges remain&nbsp;&nbsp;CPJ Press Freedom OnlineDuring a trip to Addis Ababa in January, it was impossible to miss the signs that Ethiopian media are enjoying unprecedented freedom. A flurry of ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19mV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602503,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274345\/revisions\/602503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}