Journalist Safety Resources
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BBC Journalism Safety Guide (JSG)
The JSG is part of BBC's approach to undertaking risk assessments for journalists deployed on location. It applies only to deployments which are familiar / routine and for those who are up to date with their News Assignment Location Safety (NALS) safety training.
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UNESCO Handbook for Reporters in High-Risk Environments
The Safety Guide for Journalists issued by Reporters Without Borders is aimed at providing guidelines and practical advice for all those who risk running into an enemy of press freedom on a street corner or on a deserted road.
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Journalist Safety Guide by James W. Foley Legacy Foundation
The James W. Foley Journalism Safety Modules are intended to help educators at the undergraduate level create a culture that promotes safety for all journalism and communications students.
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British Red Cross: Media Professionals and Armed Conflict Handbook
Media professionals, in reporting on armed conflicts, play a critical role in informing the public about events that may otherwise go unnoticed. The primary objective of this Handbook is to ensure that media professionals are aware of their various responsibilities under IHL
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Knight Center: How to Report Safely: Strategies for Women Journalists & their Allies
This self-directed course features course content from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas' massive open online course (MOOC) titled “How to report safely: Strategies for women.
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CPJ Journalist Security Guide
The guide outlines basic preparedness for new journalists taking on their first assignments around the world, offers refresher information for mid-career journalists returning to the field, and provides advice on complex issues such as digital security and threats
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The Journalist Survival Guide
The Journalist Survival Guide was designed to aid primarily journalists and activists working in war zones and other areas of conflict, where their safety may be at risk. The Survival Guide may be helpful to various other individuals facing similar scenarios and challenges.
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Philippine Journalist Safety Guide
This online resource is a self-help guide that journalists in trouble or headed for difficult or hazardous coverage, or simply seeking basic practical knowledge on media safety, can download.
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IAWRT Safety Handbook for Women Journalists
In this handbook, we consider the different categories of media women: there are international women journalists who operate in countries with cultures that differ from their own, regional journalists who travel to a neighbouring country, and local journalists
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Guide for Journalists Who Report on Crime and Crime Victims
The Journalist Survival Guide was designed to aid primarily journalists and activists working in war zones and other areas of conflict, where their safety may be at risk. The Survival Guide may be helpful to various other individuals facing similar scenarios and challenges.
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Safe+Secure Safety Handbook
Safe + Secure has been launched as a result of increased awareness about the risks to which documentary filmmakers expose themselves - and their crews, subjects and sources - in order to bring important stories to the world.
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Surveillance Self-Defense Guide
Surveillance Self-Defense is a digital security guide that teaches you how to assess your personal risk from online spying. It can help protect you from surveillance by those who might want to find out your secrets, from petty criminals to nation states.
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PEN America Online Harassment Field Manual
Whether you’re experiencing or witnessing online abuse, this Field Manual offers concrete strategies for how to defend yourself and others. PEN America wrote this guidance with and for those disproportionately impacted by online abuse
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OnlineSOS Action Center
Online SOS is a safe place where people can find tools, information and, above all, empowerment, in the face of online harassment.
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Safety of Female Journalists Online Resource Guide
This resource guide provides a series of proposed actions for ten key stakeholder groups to address gender-based online abuse of journalists. The Guide identifies a concrete way forward, and provides a list of useful resources
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Self-care for Journalists
Journalists are a resilient tribe, but we are also vulnerable to psychological injury, no less so than firefighters, police officers, paramedics, or soldiers — and we need training, psychological support and leadership aware of these issues.
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Guide: Journalism & Vicarious Trauma
This guide has been created for individuals faced with the challenges of vicarious trauma in different ways and at different stages of their newsroom careers