INSI : News

31 October 2017

Journalists covering refugee crisis suffer 'moral injury': October update

This month we launched our report The Emotional Toll on Journalists Covering the Refugee Crisis with a panel at London’s Frontline Club and a Facebook Live discussion.

23 October 2017

Sweden's TV4 joins INSI

The International News Safety Institute (INSI) is pleased to extend its reach in Sweden by welcoming TV4 as our newest member. Based in Stockholm, TV4 is a Swedish television network that started broadcasting in 1990 and has fast become one of the largest television channels in the country.

16 October 2017

"Everyone has a dream of healthy children, nice friends"

Alice Petrén, migration correspondent for Swedish Radio, explains how meeting one refugee family from Afghanistan affected her in particular.

9 October 2017

Bonnier News becomes INSI member

The International News Safety Institute (INSI) is delighted to announce that the Swedish media group Bonnier News has become our newest member.

3 October 2017

September update

INSI members tuned into a webinar hosted by our board member Salim Amin on covering the re-run of the disputed Kenyan presidential elections.

19 September 2017

INSI's 2017 AGM to be held in Amsterdam

The 14th Annual General Meeting of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) will take place this year in Amsterdam on 14 November.

14 September 2017

Covering a crisis in your own back yard

Yannis Behrakis has been a Reuters photographer for more than 30 years, during which he has covered conflict and crises around the world. However, during the recent refugee crisis he turned his camera on his home country of Greece where, as chief photographer in Athens, he began covering the story in April 2015.

6 September 2017

The hazards behind the headlines

Not too long ago, the only journalists working in conflict areas who might be afforded protection were those working for wealthy, predominantly Western news organizations.

29 August 2017

Psychological effects of covering the refugee crisis on journalists

It’s been more than two years since Will Vassilopoulos first travelled to Lesbos to cover the refugee crisis as a video journalist for Agence France-Presse.

15 August 2017

"You are dealing relentlessly with the same wretched situation"

Patrick Kingsley initially found “real psychological respite” when he moved from being the Guardian’s Egypt Correspondent to being its first Migration Correspondent. He believed he could make a difference with his work which encompassed all aspects of migration from the personal stories to the political.