GJS News and Events

Best Safety Management Practices for Nonprofit and Other Groups A worst case scenario: Development Alternatives “failed” to either ”take basic remedial measures” or provide  ”education and training that was necessary to minimize the risk of harm.” D

Digital Safety for National Security Reporters and Human Rights Defenders “The old model of a handshake around source protection is no longer enough; journalists who want to work with confidential sources must be able to provide enough information security to prevent their sourc

Personal Safety Training; Crisis Management Services Safety & Crisis Management Tools, Training – Humanitarian and development professionals frequently operate in areas of moderate to severe risk. Best safety practices require advance security preparation. Global Journalist

Last week we joined the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council. Later this week we fly to Tunis for the Circumvention Tech Summit. Next week we speak on journalism and digital security at Yale Law School. To learn more about these events and our role in each of th

Yale Law School on Nov. 29 will bring together journalists and technologists to discuss digital security and journalism; current practices among journalists; the merits and pitfalls of available technology; and what more can—or should—be done. The first panel includes technology journ

Threats facing journalists have changed dramatically in the last decade. VOA’s Vivian Chakarian interviews GJS’ Frank Smyth, the main author of CPJ’s Journalist Security Guide, Roy Gutman, Baghdad Bureau Chief of McClatchy Newspapers, and Martha Raddatz, Chief Foreig

GJS’ Frank Smyth is speaking at two San Francisco events. A Society of Professional Journalists Sept. 19 panel on Digital Security Tools for Working Journalists with First Amendment attorney Geoffrey King, CPJ’s Danny O’Brien and Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan. An O

If [the late Mexican blogger Castro] was being tracked electronically, what could Castro have done to reduce the danger? “She could have used Tor,” says Smyth, main author of the CPJ guide. Tor is described on its Web site as free software that “prevents anyone from

“In Syria, you have fluid battle lines, but you also have a more fluid mix of regular and irregular combatants—a less centralized insurgent force, and also government forces that are being supported in urban areas by militias,” says Frank Smyth, the senior security adviser at the Comm

  Journalist Safety in Brazil: A Tactical Analysis, 1992-2012   This report may be best viewed as a PDF file available here. JOURNALIST SAFETY IN BRAZIL Journalist Safety in Brazil A Tactical Analysis in Advance of Possible Training by Global Journalist Security June 2012

GJS’ Frank Smyth to join colleagues Danny O’Brien, Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Kathleen Reen for a panel discussion on physical and digital aspects of journalist security at Internews on June 13 in Washington, DC, in an event pegged to the release of CPJ’s Journalist Se

GJS is pleased to be participating in the 10th Austin Forum on Journalism in the Americas whose topic this  year is Safety and Protection for Journalists, Bloggers and Citizen Journalists. GJS’ Frank Smyth is speaking this week on a panel on Prevention and Protection Strategies

Next week GJS will travel to El Salvador to participate in the Foro Centroamericano de Periodismo as a guest of organizers including the online website, El Faro. Editors and journalists from El Faro were recently threatened and followed, according to the Committee to Protect Journalis

Editors, producers, practitioners and others involved in the news industry will gather at the Frontline Club in early May to discuss issues of safety. Frontline Club founder and former member of Frontline TV, Vaughan Smith, says the aim of the meeting – to be held on Tuesday 8 M

State Department video recording on World Press Freedom Day 2012 of a discussion moderated by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Dan Baer interviewing Karen Reilly of the Tor Project and GJS’ Frank Smyth.   

CPJ Event: Journalist Security: On-Site and Online Wednesday, May 2 4:00-6:30 p.m. Joseph Pulitzer World Room, Third Floor Columbia Journalism School | 2950 Broadway at 115th Street Registration for this event is required RSVP here by April 27   On the frontlines of global report

Date and Time: From: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 16:00 Until: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 18:30 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada), Bogota, Lima   Location: Joseph Pulitzer World Room, Third Floor Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 116th Street and Broadway, New Yor

The National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee hosted a panel on Feb 14, 2012 to examine the latest Mideast trends on repression of expression. The panel was moderated by Frank Smyth, executive director of Global Journalist Security (journalistsecurity.net) and senior advisor

For Immediate Release, Nov. 8, 2011 Contact: Frank Smyth, Executive Director, Global Journalist Security Tel:  + 1 202 244 0717;        Email:  frank AT journalistsecurity DOT net;       Twitter: @JournoSecurity Washington, D.C. – To help ensure journalists facing the world’s most dan

The Washington Times, 11/10/11; ”Mexican anti-cartel blogger is murdered, decapitated” (Story quotes Frank Smyth) By Shaun Waterman “The drug gangs, which already use violence to control physical territory, ‘are now spreading their use of terror to try and cont