10:30 - 12:00 hrs (SIN/HK)
Digital Security for Journalists
Digital Security for Journalists
While digital security is increasingly important to a news organization and to a journalist both personally and professionally, this issue has become an even greater challenge in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
On the one hand, there are governments and power actors that seek to silence honest reporting about the pandemic; on the other, the challenges of remote work stress the importance of good digital safety habits. This webinar will help editors and reporters identify threats to their digital activities and plan safety protocols for their newsrooms.
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Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to identify threats and potential aggressors, plan a safety protocol accordingly and choose the right tools to protect communications with colleagues and sources, files, data, and devices. The webinar will educate newsrooms on how to develop best practices in their online activity.
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Content Outline
Risk assessment: Identify potential attacks and aggressors and your own strengths and weaknesses in digital safety. Plan your safety measures according to the environment you face. Distinguish protection measures that need to be permanent versus those that respond to a specific activity or occasion. Protect interactions between reporters, editors and sources.
Tools for protecting digital activities: Identify the tools most suited to your needs when it comes to protecting communications, file storage, web browsing, software and hardware integrity, passwords and 2FA.
Social media: How to use social media for professional and personal purposes. What is the trail of information about you that you leave behind in social media platforms?
Education and mitigation: Plan digital safety measures for the entire newsroom and share them with sources or other involved parties. Educate them on the need for good safety practices. Plan your mitigation strategies in case of a successful attack (hacking, phishing, file theft) and identify who can be affected.
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Who Should Attend
Reporters | Journalists | Editors | Digital Editors | Newsroom Managers
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Trainer
Javier Garza is a journalist based in Torreón, Mexico. As editorial director of El Siglo de Torreón he developed safety protocols for covering a wave of violence unleashed by organized crime groups in the city, which included armed attacks and kidnappings against the newspaper. He is recipient of the Dart Ochberg fellowship (2013). In 2014-15 he was a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists focused on digital security and documenting attacks against the press in Mexico. He has lectured on violence against the media at universities and press organizations in Mexico, the United States, Europe and South America and serves as an adviser on Newsroom Safety for WAN-IFRA.
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