
Advisory: Covering environmental disasters
This INSI advisory covers reporting safely on environmental hazards from wildfires and volcanic eruptions to building fires and chemical spills.
This INSI advisory covers reporting safely on environmental hazards from wildfires and volcanic eruptions to building fires and chemical spills.
Medical packs are an essential piece of kit for journalists. Emergencies can happen when you least expect them – not just in hostile or challenging environments.
With Europe, Africa, North America, parts of Asia and the Middle East struggling with heatwaves that have seen record temperatures soaring into the 40s, INSI has some advice for journalists working in hot weather.
Mexico’s presidential race has been described as the bloodiest in recent history with 114 candidates, politicians or office holders killed since nationwide campaigning stated in September 2017, according to the security consulting group Etellekt.
Over the past six months, INSI has held a series of events for its members focused on covering the FIFA World Cup. The following information is a summary of our members’ advisories 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.
Kenya’s Supreme Court annulled the presidential elections held in August because of irregularities and has scheduled a new vote for 26 October. The opposition has threatened to boycott but with ballot papers arriving, the poll looks set to go ahead on Thursday.
After the recent string of devastating hurricanes and earthquakes, INSI has some advice for journalists covering natural disasters.
Demonstrations like the one in Charlottesville, Virginia can quickly turn violent. INSI has some advice for journalists covering protests.
Kenya goes to the polls on 8 August to elect a president, parliament and county assembly seats. Election violence in 2007/08 killed more than 1,000 people and there are fears that this poll could easily turn violent as well. Chris Msando, an electoral official, was found dead in late July with reports saying he had been tortured and murdered.
Journalists generally have the First Amendment right to film or photograph public spaces and events, including police activity at protests. What else can they, and can't they, do when reporting from a protest?
With the inauguration of the new US president, Donald Trump, just days away and protestors massing on Washington DC, INSI has some advice for journalists on staying safe if the demonstrations turn violent.
The so-called Snoopers' Charter, the Investigatory Powers Bill, has passed into law in the United Kingdom, giving the government wide-ranging authority to intercept and hack into communications.
With US presidential candidate Donald Trump branded a threat to press freedom by the Committee to Protect Journalists, and outright hostility and threats to journalists from his supporters, the upcoming US election looks set to be a risky assignment.
The kidnapping of journalists isn’t a new thing. We saw it in Lebanon in the 80s and 90s with the kidnapping of Terry Anderson from the AP, David Hirst of the Guardian, Charles Glass of ABC.
INSI knows that it’s not just in war zones where journalists can find themselves at risk, and it’s not just war correspondents who have to deal with safety issues.
INSI's Marcelo Moreira from Globo Television in Rio explains how journalists can stay safe, and still get the story, at the Brazil Olympics.
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Though the political stump speeches all tend to sound the same, elections in East Africa are wildly different affairs.
The two most important principles for great journalism go hand in hand: first, to hold power to account, and second, to protect sources.
Protecting your data, and yourself, online is an absolute necessity for journalists, especially those working with sensitive information.
With enough information and preparation, it is possible for journalists to work more safely in hostile environments.
Hundreds of people have died in a heatwave in Pakistan as temperatures reached 45C in the southern port city of Karachi.
Things can change rapidly in Bujumbura: within hours, foreign journalists can turn from friends into foes due to perceptions that they are partial to one side or the other.
Traveling into Libya is becoming increasingly difficult with the last foreign airline, Turkish Airlines, suspending flights to Misrata.
The eyes of world have been focused on the safety of the news media in the last couple of months following the kidnapping and brutal murders of our colleagues, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as the killings of dozens of local journalists.
This is the largest known outbreak of the disease and the first in West Africa.
Journalists need to be physically and mentally equipped to face potential dangers when reporting in unsafe and unpredictable situations.
With the release of our Killing the Messenger report showing that more journalists than ever are being targeted as they carry out their work, INSI has some advice if you think you're being followed.
Since 7 July hundreds of rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza. Israel responded with a barrage of missiles that claimed more than 200 Palestinian lives, and on 17 July launched a ground invasion.
With the situation deteriorating in Iraq, INSI experts have put together a safety briefing for journalists covering the conflict.
Foreign journalists have been banned from entering al Anbar province unless they have specific approval from the relevant authorities including the Iraqi Ministry of Defence and the Anbar Operations Command Centre.
Fake World Cup sites promising prizes and tickets are cropping up daily as fraudsters attempt to intercept user's details or even deploy malware.
On the eve of the FIFA World Cup, INSI has collated the following safety advice for journalists and news crews working in Brazil.
There has been a spate of armed carjacking in Nairobi and security forces are warning of a new modus operandi in the city.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) now advises against all but essential travel to the western regions of Dix-Huit Montagnes, Haut-Sassandra, Moyen-Cavally and Bas-Sassandra regions of the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), in particular the area to the west of Duékoué up to the border with Liberia.
INSI is aware of several cases of journalists being attacked, detained and having equipment confiscated in Crimea recently.
Objective Travel Safety and INSI are offering briefing packs to help media organisations prepare for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
INSI has received some updates on the situation in Tripoli.
INSI is sharing the following information from Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum for news crews in the Crimea region.
It is advisable to carry a grab bag with you at all times when in hostile or challenging places.
Since November 2013, four "bombs" have gone off in Mogadishu.
The International News Safety Institute is issuing the following safety advice for journalists covering the protests in Ukraine.
The Russian city of Sochi will host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games from 7 February to 13 February. The Paralympic games begin on 7 March and run until 16 March.
Six people have been injured in clashes in Bangkok, ahead of next week’s planned ‘shutdown’ of the Thai capital by anti-government protesters.
The situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) is deteriorating despite the arrival of 1600 French troops and African Union peacekeeping forces earlier this month.
Protests are planned for today and this weekend in Egypt.
Journalists have reportedly been injured and attacked while covering the protests taking place in Bangkok and Kiev.
The security situation in the Central African Republic has deteriorated since March this year when rebels seized power and forced the President Francois Bozizé into exile.
Four days have passed since Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, affecting millions of people.
As the US and its allies consider a military strike against Syria in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb last month, foreign journalists are flocking to neighbouring Lebanon to cover the potential fallout.