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18 March 2016

INSI and Feinstein to study trauma suffered by journalists covering refugees

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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7 March 2016

Freelance Safety/First Aid Trainers Wanted

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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1 March 2016

February update: "Fast pair of running shoes no longer enough for journalists covering conflict"

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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8 February 2016

Journalists must be able to work in safety

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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2 February 2016

Mexican reporter who took on local strongmen killed

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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26 January 2016

Statement of solidarity with the Afghan media community

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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25 January 2016

Killing The Messenger 2015

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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15 December 2015

Trauma inside the newsroom

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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11 December 2015

Annual Review 2015

We invite you to take a look at our 2015 Annual Review to get a flavour of our accomplishments this past year.

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10 December 2015

‘International Declaration and Best Practices’ to promote journalists’ safety launched

The International Declaration and Best Practices on the Promotion of Journalists Safety was presented, Wednesday, at an event organised in Geneva.

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