In the wake of terror attacks in Paris and Brussels, we at INSI recognise that terrorism can affect news organisations close to home as well as in the field.
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The deadly aftermath of terrorist attacks in Brussels, Lahore, Ankara and Istanbul dominated the news agenda in March with journalists around the world risking their own safety to cover these dangerous and unpredictable events.
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The International News Safety Institute announces today that it is launching a research project with Dr Anthony Feinstein into the psychological effects that covering the refugee crisis has on journalists.
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We are currently recruiting freelance safety and first aid trainers to deliver safety and security courses for journalists working in hostile environments around the world.
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The BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen once told me he reported from El Salvador, at the height of the country’s civil war, with a safety kit that consisted of a “fast pair of running shoes” and a single ballistic plate.
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111 – remember this figure. This is how many journalists and colleagues such as fixers were killed in 2015. A figure which is unacceptably high.
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A newspaper reporter in southern Mexico has been shot dead, the third journalist slain in less than a year in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state.
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In response to the attacks of last January 20th on Tolo TV, in which 8 people have been killed and 30 others injured, we stand in solidarity with the Afghan media community.
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A total of 111 media workers died in 2015, according to INSI’s Killing The Messenger report, a biannual survey of journalists who died around the world for simply doing their jobs.
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Today, we know much more about the psychological and emotional effects of trauma on journalists and editors, both out in the field and back in the newsroom. But that wasn’t always the case at many news outlets.
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