Webinar Recording

2020 brought new, credible threats to working journalists in the United States.

latakoo community hosted a panel discussion on March 11 to address what current news outlets are doing to safeguard their reporting staff and steps you can take to increase your own safety while on location. Please join latakoo in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists with a donation.

Resources

The Committee to Protect Journalists offers the following guides on safety:

• Safety note: Arrests and detention
• Editor's checklist: Preparing for U.S. protest assignments
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) glossary
• Risk assessment form / more information on risk assessments
• Safety note: Covering civil unrest
• Digital safety kit 
• Digital safety note: Protecting against targeted online attacks 
• Digital safety note: Remove personal data from the Internet 
• Safety note: Psychological safety  
• Safety checklist: Covering demonstrations in the U.S. (HP Risk Management, a group that works with CPJ)
• A guide to your legal rights in the U.S.
• 2020 U.S. election safety kit 
• Safety advisory: Covering the build-up to the U.S. presidential inauguration
• Safety advisory: Covering U.S. protests over police violence
• Contact Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press legal hotline at 1(800)336-4243 or hotline@rcfp.org or visit their website.