Following attacks in Paris and Brussels, there are a number of security related considerations for journalists covering the UEFA Euro 2016 championship.
Read moreWith 100 days to go until the Opening Ceremony of this year’s Olympics Games in Rio, INSI is preparing to help our members who are deploying journalists to cover the event.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreWe are currently recruiting freelance safety and first aid trainers to deliver safety and security courses for journalists working in hostile environments around the world.
Read moreThe 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.
Read more111 – remember this figure. This is how many journalists and colleagues such as fixers were killed in 2015. A figure which is unacceptably high.
Read moreA newspaper reporter in southern Mexico has been shot dead, the third journalist slain in less than a year in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state.
Read moreIn 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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