The International Day of Journalists is celebrated every September 8. It is a day to pay tribute to the Czech Julius Fucik, who was murdered in 1943. His Report at the Foot of the Gallows was taken page by page from prison and published two years after his assassination. This writing has had such an impact over time that it has been translated into more than eighty languages. In 1950 he was posthumously awarded the International Peace Prize for his work.
Every year the journalistic guild worldwide remembers the date as a tribute to those who possess the gift of the word and have been able to leave a mark in this profession, which more than a profession is a way of life.
Work that, as Javier Darío Pestrepo argued, dignifies when it serves the noblest part of the human being and contributes to the life of society and makes people better.
On a day like today we remember all those journalists who have internationally spread the right to truth and information. Principles that since the beginning of the reporting profession are essential for its performance, because not to do it is not to do journalism.
Cuba is one of the nations in the world where journalism is practiced safely and without interference, thus complying with the resolution on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) on December 13, 2013.
