The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day celebrated this month was #pressforprogress, and progress is indeed something that is sorely needed in terms of the safety of women journalists.
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) is delighted to announce its first new member of 2018 – VICE News.
The past year has been a watershed for women working in the news media. It was marked by an increase in violence against them but also coincided with a rise in the numbers of female media workers bravely calling out the systemic abuse and harassment they have faced.
The International News Safety Institute was saddened and shocked at the murder of the Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak.
INSI recently held a series of meetings for its members on covering the FIFA World Cup. The following information is an extract taken from a members’ advisory on covering the Russia 2018 tournament safely.
With the Winter Olympics underway, INSI has been working to support our members on the ground in PyeongChang, South Korea.
In 2017, violence against female journalists increased and the number of women killed in connection with their journalistic work also increased significantly, according to the International News Safety Institute's Killing the Messenger 2017 report. This is a development that has to stop.
2017 saw an unusually high number of women among the 68 journalists killed doing their jobs this year, according to Killing the Messenger, a biannual analysis of journalist casualties by the International News Safety Institute (INSI).
One of the most powerful - and challenging - sessions from this year's News Xchange in Amsterdam was the conversation hosted and moderated by INSI director Hannah Storm on the topic of cyber bullying and its effects on threatening, sometimes to the point of silencing, journalists' voices.
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) has another new member, our seventh this year.