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.
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
- Safety note: Covering civil unrest
- Digital safety kit
Safety checklist: Covering demonstrations in the U.S. (HP Risk Management, a group that works with CPJ)- 2020 U.S. election safety kit
- Contact Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press legal hotline at 1(800)336-4243 or hotline@rcfp.org or visit their website.
Chris Post, NPPA Safety and Security Task Force, offers these training resources:
- Basic First Aid Training with Stop the Bleed.
- Chris' personal page with training resources: www.JournalistSafety.com
- NPPA.org - Health & Safety Training
Sean McNamara, News Director at WDAF Kansas City, offers these safety guidelines:
Lucy Westcott
Committee to Protect Journalists
James W. Foley Emergencies Research Associate
Chris Post
Chair, NPPA Safety & Security Task Force
Staff Photojournalist, WFMZ-TV
Sean McNamara
News Director, WDAF
Kansas City, Missouri
Jade Kurian
President and Co-Founder of latakoo. Jade spent more than 20 years as a journalist.
Paul Adrian
CEO and Co-Founder of latakoo. Paul spent more than 20 years as a journalist.