You can see the eBook PDF-version of this guide here. Introduction Communicating with your source and safeguarding the sensitive data How to become anonymous
via vpnMentor: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/online-privacy-journalists/
what is it that needs to be done to ensure that a journalist’s sources and data are secure and well? Grosso modo
Elena Milashina says threats have been made against her newspaper’s entire staff.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/15/she-broke-the-story-of-chechnyas-anti-gay-purge-now-she-says-she-has-to-flee-russia/?utm_term=.39593cf5326a&tid=sm_tw
Fifteen-thousand people got together in the main mosque of Chechnya and announced a jihad against the staff of Novaya Gazeta.
Not just me, but all the people working at the newspaper are now in danger, because this was a clear jihad message. We will persecute you for tarnishing the honor of the Chechen nation, this nasty thing that you said. There are gays among Chechen people? We will persecute you until the last person at Novaya Gazeta dies. It’s unbelievable. It reminds us of the situation with Charlie Hebdo.
The newspaper, Norte, said that the three killings of reporters in March showed that journalism had become a high-risk profession.
With the headline “¡Adios!” in large type emblazoned across its front page, a newspaper in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, announced on Sunday that it was shutting down after nearly 30 years after three journalists from other news organizations were killed last month.
The Obama White House provided thousands of images to the public via Flickr, but so far the Trump administration hasn’t uploaded any. Will they?
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/03/wont-find-trump-white-house-flickr/
A week after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, the White House announced the appointment of Shealah Craighead as Souza’s successor. The Obama Flickr feed was promptly moved to a new location to make room for the Trump administration, but two months later, not a single image has been uploaded. Not even the cover image has been changed from the default.
Opinion: Livestreaming can document human rights abuses, but it can carry security risks.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2017/03/hey-activists-need-think-twice-livestreaming-protests/
While livestreaming can be used to hold perpetrators of human rights abuses accountable, the tool also presents challenges around ethics, safety, surveillance, and censorship
If anything, the photo album brings Trump’s guardedness, and the quality and amount of White House visual disclosure, into greater relief.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/03/trump-first-50-days-photo-album/
You would think that the gift of this photo album, commemorating Trump’s first fifty days in office and showcasing the work of the official White House photographer, would erase, or at least allay the concerns raised by The New Yorker article. If anything though, the album brings the issues of Trump’s guardedness, the quality and amount of White House visual disclosure, and even internal photographic access within the administration into greater relief
Photojournalist Mannie Garcia has won a $45,000 settlement in a civil rights lawsuit resulting from his unlawful arrest by Montgomery County police in Maryland in 2011.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/mannie-garcia-wins-settlement-police-lawsuit
Photojournalist Mannie Garcia has won a $45,000 settlement in a civil rights lawsuit resulting from his unlawful arrest by Montgomery County police in Maryland in 2011.
After a Times reporter’s live-tweeting about Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in Dallas broke courthouse rules, he wrote about it. Unexpectedly, a court officer responded.
A few weeks after a security officer nearly booted him from a federal courthouse in Dallas for live-tweeting Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony there, Mike Isaac, a technology reporter at The Times, got an unexpected message on LinkedIn.
The government has long denounced articles by Western news organizations as biased and dishonest, but Beijing has now adopted a very Western term to describe them.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/world/asia/china-fake-news-xie.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, mimicked Mr. Trump’s characteristic bluster — and his fondness for capital letters — on Friday in denouncing Western news coverage of a Chinese lawyer and human rights advocate who said he had been tortured.
Photojournalists like Shawkan have been imprisoned for three years since Egyptian authorizes cracked down on protests, and Mohammed Elshamy feels it is his duty to make their stories heard.
I was on a bus heading back to New York when I got news from Egypt that my brother Abdullah had been released from solitary confinement. I was so overwhelmed with joy, all I could do was scream hysterically. Then I realized: Our friend and colleague Shawkan wasn’t so lucky. I grew quiet, as the thought of Shawkan still imprisoned left me wondering. When would Shawkan and his family have their moment of relief and happiness?
Critics said the warning could herald a new effort to suppress free speech by authoritarian governments emboldened by the U.S. president’s words.
The Facebook comments “show pretty clearly that as soon as there are perceptions that the United States has wavered on its commitment to press freedom, then countries with authoritarian tendencies are very quick to abandon any pretense of allowing the media to operate freely,” said Shawn W. Crispin, the Bangkok-based Southeast Asia representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonpartisan advocacy group based in New York
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2017/vice-goes-inside-syria-to-show-what-media-censorship-really-looks-like/449927/
Central to it all is Assad’s control of the media. In one believe-it-or-not scene, Yeung actually attempts to turn the tables on the regime while herself a guest on a national TV channel’s happy-talk morning show.
Even from a president who routinely castigates journalists, the president’s Twitter post was a striking escalation in his attacks on the press.
Even by the standards of a president who routinely castigates journalists — and who on Thursday devoted much of a 77-minute news conference to criticizing his press coverage — Mr. Trump’s tweet was a striking escalation in his attacks.
Reuters has published a message from Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler to his staff that outlines how the news agency should cover the Trump administration in a “challenging” climate. “It’s not every day that a U.S. president calls journalists ‘among the most d
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/02/reuters-editor-staff-cover-trump-admin-like-unwelcoming-governments.html
He goes on to point out that Reuters reports in many countries “in which the media is unwelcome and frequently under attack,” citing Turkey, Yemen, China, Zimbabwe and Russia, among others, as examples, and later noting that Reuters has covered Iran with “virtually no official access. What we have are sources,” he says.
The press may not yet know how to cover the president, but the president knows exactly what to do with the press: Humiliate them.
Reporters had been following Trump all year. Early rallies had been covered as curiosities; later ones as political mass spectacles. But on the eve of the election, it was clear that a perilous dynamic had been ignored. “He never once failed to invite his crowds to heckle us,” he wrote. “He was placing us on display like captured animals. And it worked.”
Six journalists arrested and charged with felony rioting while covering inauguration protests; worries about press freedom grow.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/01/police-intimidation-watch-six-journalists-charged-felonies-inauguration-day.html
Journalists arrested at the January 20 protests in Washington, DC include Shay Horse, identified by The Guardian as an independent photojournalist and activist; Jack Keller, a documentary producer; Evan Engel of Vocativ; Alex Rubinstein of RT America; independent journalist Matt Hopard, who was live-streaming the protests; and Aaron Cantú, a freelance journalist.
Trade-off between security and usability unlikely to permit systematic surveillance, experts say
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages
Privacy campaigners said the vulnerability is a “huge threat to freedom of speech” and warned it can be used by government agencies to snoop on users who believe their messages to be secure. WhatsApp has made privacy and security a primary selling point, and has become a go to communications tool of activists, dissidents and diplomats.
WNYC Studios is leading the new golden age in audio with high quality storytelling that informs, inspires and delights millions of curious and highly engaged listeners. WNYC Studios produces award-winning podcasts including Radiolab, Here’s the Thing with
via WNYC Studios: http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-01-06
British journalist John Cantlie has been a prisoner of ISIS for more than four years. Throughout his captivity, he’s been forced to act as a sort of warped foreign correspondent, extolling the virtues of the group in propaganda videos. With every appearance, he looks weaker and gaunter. In this special hour, we consider how Cantlie’s plight is a window into the challenges of reporting on Syria, and why the world’s tangled policy on hostages means that some live to tell the tale, and others don’t.
This is the fifth holiday season that Austin Tice hasn’t been at home with his family here in Houston. Here’s a look at the latest on the photojournalist who went missing in Syria more than four years ago.
via Houston Public Media: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/12/30/181652/family-of-kidnapped-houston-photojournalist-remains-optimistic/
This is the fifth holiday season that Austin Tice hasn’t been at home with his family here in Houston. Here’s a look at the latest on the photojournalist who went missing in Syria more than four years ago.
House Republicans have put forward a proposal to fine representatives who shoot photos or videos on the floor of the chamber — a move widely viewed as a
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/12/28/republicans-propose-2500-fine-photography-house-floor/
House Republicans have put forward a proposal to fine representatives who shoot photos or videos on the floor of the chamber — a move widely viewed as a response to House Democrats staging a sit-in in June to demand a vote on gun control legislation.