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9 January 2025

Unprecedented journalist death toll in Israel-Gaza war

According to the CPJ, at least 157 journalists and media workers have been confirmed dead as of January 9, including 148 Palestinians, 3 Israelis, and 6 Lebanese.

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16 December 2024

INSI Annual Report 2024

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.

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27 November 2024

INSI AGM to be held online on Dec 11

The Annual General Meeting of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) will take place online on 11 December 2024, at 12pm.

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27 June 2024

Silverbacks and honey-hunters: a journey into the heart of Congo-Brazzaville

Adventure travel programming takes television crews to some of the most extreme, remote and challenging environments on Earth. Seasoned documentary producer & director Frederick Martin told INSI about his exhilarating, but challenging, filming trip through the Congolese rainforest.. 

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3 May 2024

A day for action, not words: World Press Freedom Day 2024

Big speeches about the importance of journalism will be made today by the very political leaders who are not delivering on the commitments they made on World Press freedom day a year ago. It’s time to call their bluff, starting from Gaza, writes INSI Director Elena Cosentino.

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25 April 2024

Working with high-risk advisors in the field

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?

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17 April 2024

INSI announces new chair Fran Unsworth

Fran Unsworth has been appointed as the new chair of the International News Safety Institute (INSI).

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12 March 2024

Nils Horner was killed while doing his job

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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11 February 2024

Death, exhaustion and suspicion: AFP journalists on the horrors of Gaza

Every day since October 7, AFP's team of journalists in Gaza have been risking their lives to cover a war that has shaken the world. They have all had to flee their homes, working without respite in the shadow of death in a territory they are not allowed to leave.

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8 February 2024

When all else fails. INSI First Aid guide for journalists in a war zone

Understanding the basics of emergency medical care and carrying a trauma kit are the most fundamental needs of journalists in war zones. That all of our colleagues should be properly trained and equipped is at the heart of INSI’s mission.

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