Alliance for Journalists' Freedom Information

The AJF’s purpose is to advocate for media freedom and the safety of journalists. This includes campaigning in the Asia–Pacific wherever journalists are censored, threatened, imprisoned or killed, and working with Australian governments to ensure legislation supports media freedom. The AJF was conceived of by three people: lawyer Chris Flynn, journalist Peter Greste, and strategic communications consultant Peter Wilkinson (also a former journalist). Flynn and Wilkinson worked with the Greste family to free Peter from his 400-day incarceration in Egypt. Subsequently, the three recognized the ongoing threats to the freedom of journalists and of the media more broadly across the South East Asian region, including Australia. It is broadly modelled on the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which has an impressive record of both research and advocacy in support of journalists and press freedom in most parts of the world.