Under Threat: The Changing State of Media Safety is a major new multi-media report, which takes an in-depth look at the main safety developments and challenges that our industry is facing today compared with 10 years ago. “At the end of last year, as our industry, our friends and colleagues were trying to make sense of the appalling murders of James Foley, Steven Sotloff and countless other less well-known journalists from Mexico to the Philippines, INSI decided it was time to look at the main challenges and changes to media safety,” said INSI Director Hannah Storm. “The resulting report, which is being released in the run up to World Press Freedom Day, is a substantial and deeply sobering document. We hope it will encourage the industry and international community to sit up and take stock of the very real dangers that journalists face in 2015.” In Under Threat, INSI presents the results of more than 30 interviews with journalists who work in some of the most dangerous areas in the world and the news executives who make the difficult decisions to send them there. These interviews are supplemented by a survey of nearly 200 media workers around the world about their perceptions of the changes in the media safety landscape. Finally, we’ve analysed 10 years of INSI statistics on journalist casualties, revealing the most dangerous places to be a media worker. The BBC’s Lyse Doucet has written the foreword and celebrated journalists, decision makers and safety professionals have joined her in contributing essays about the challenges and opportunities of working in dangerous environments, changes in safety training and equipment, threats to freelancers and impunity. INSI’s research reveals how terror groups are exploiting the changing role of social media and technology and how journalists are at greater risk of being targeted than they were in the past. “We heard that groups like ISIS are using new technologies to control what one interviewee called the ‘information battlefield’, and they have declared war on journalists through high profile kidnappings and killings broadcast on social media,” said report author Lisa Clifford, INSI’s news and projects manager. “Meanwhile, the frontlines in places like Syria and Iraq have blurred – journalists are no longer sure who to trust and where they can go safely.” We’ll be revealing more information in the coming days on the INSI website and on our Facebook and Twitter pages under the hashtag #underthreatmedia. To arrange interviews or for more information, please contact Lisa Clifford at lisa.clifford@newssafety.org or Hannah Storm at hannah.storm@newssafety.org  AFP Photo (Adem Altan) Journalists in Turkey demonstrate against violence against the media.