According to the CPJ, at least 108 journalists and media workers have been confirmed dead as of June 25, including 102 Palestinians, 4 Israelis, and 3 Lebanese.
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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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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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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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Fran Unsworth has been appointed as the new chair of the International News Safety Institute (INSI).
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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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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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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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INSI's annual report of media casualties, Killing the Messenger 2023, is out now.
As the toxicity of the public discourse about the Israeli and Palestinian issue clouds pretty much everything, we risk losing perspective as to why we keep and publish this tally of dead journalists in the first place.
This year we marked INSI’s 20th anniversary. It now feels like a small miracle that we managed to squeeze in a proper in-person celebration in London, attended by INSI’s 50 member organisations and other allies, just before the awful events of October 7th.
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