The Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, says the number of professionals arrested and held in prisons is near to a record high. Imprisonments of media crews covering the war in Israel and Gaza spiked. How to protect free expression and defend journalists at risk? In this episode, Patrícia Vasconcellos, Board Member of the Club of Foreign Correspondents in the USA and White House Correspondent for SBT talks with Bob Rowley, Vice President of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States and chair of the AFPC committee on press freedom and defending journalists. Rowley is an award winning American journalist with more than 30 years of experience as a writer, reporter, editor and correspondent. He is a contributing writer for Washington Monthly and writes commentary for the Chicago Tribune, among other outlets. Rowley is a former White House and Pentagon Correspondent and a former foreign correspondent covering Latin America, Canada and the Middle East for the Tribune. He also served as an editorial writer covering foreign affairs and defense issues, and as National Editor for the Tribune. With degrees granted by Harvard University and Northwestern University, Rowley now lectures in the Master of Science in Communication Program at Northwestern’s School of Communication and also teaches the global journalism class on Israel to undergraduates, as well as the politics seminar for graduate students, at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. He has covered wars, politics, elections, economics, human rights, religion and culture for stories in more than 50 countries.