SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The Committee to Protect Journalists’ board said it voted Wednesday to affirm its existing definition of “who is a journalist,”

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 New: The Committee to Protect Journalists’ board said it voted Wednesday to affirm its existing definition of “who is a journalist,” saying it never planned to narrow the definition to exclude Palestinian and Lebanese journalists killed by Israel.

Former board member and Drop Site News publisher Nika Soon-Shiong had demanded a vote in an email to the board before her removal this week. Warning of a proposal to exclude journalists who exhibit certain “behaviors and activities” or work for “state-backed propaganda outlets, militant- and designated terror-affiliated organizations” that she said had emerged from board discussion of a Free Beacon article targeting her and Drop Site, Soon-Shiong wrote that the board “should formally vote before any further work proceeds.”

“Reopening the question of ‘who is a journalist’ carries profound implications,” Soon-Shiong added, stating CPJ’s database “should remain insulated from political pressure to redefine who deserves recognition for their role in history.”

“Board members asked for a vote on a plan to look again at this definition and today voted to affirm the existing definition,” board chair Jacob Weisberg said today.