This is the part where I tell you how well we’ve done this year as an organization— supporting journalists, protecting them, making a difference.
Except we haven’t done that well at all. We have certainly tried, but we have also definitely failed. We all have. Gaza is where the buck stops, and where our words, our outrage, and our strategies have met a wall of indifference and impotence.
According to the CPJ, at least 141 journalists and media workers have been confirmed dead as of December 19, including 132 Palestinians, 3 Israelis, and 6 Lebanese.
News organisations are increasingly turning to high-risk advisors to accompany news teams on dangerous assignments, but what is actually required of them? And how do you pick the right match for your journalists and your deployment?
Fran Unsworth has been appointed as the new chair of the International News Safety Institute (INSI).
Cilla Benkö, Director General of Swedish Radio, Vice President of the EBU and INSI board member, marks the ten years since Swedish Radio foreign correspondent Nils Horner was killed in Kabul.
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