Deadline: 5 April 2024
The International Women’s Media Foundation is launching a national journalism safety initiative to provide wrap around care for small newsrooms and journalists that lack the resources and knowledge to implement best practices and safety policies for 2024 and beyond.
The IWMF will offer one-day highly interactive in person safety workshops to local and regional news outlets in battleground states and rural areas where newsrooms are grappling with ongoing safety challenges.
Topics include risk assessment and mitigation, personal security, active shooter, protests, legal/know your rights, and psychosocial/mental health awareness.
After the training is completed, the IWMF will offer ongoing support to the participating newsrooms and journalism networks with safety consultations, assistance developing and implementing safety policies, and emergency assistance grants when needed. This approach will target the needs of journalists and newsroom leaders before, during, and after the elections with a mix of prevention and mitigation measures alongside emergency response and assistance if the newsroom faces any threats.
The IWMF with the Bronx Documentary Center will offer a two-day interactive, holistic safety training course on April 29-30 for New York-based professional reporters across all mediums.
Training
- The training will focus on physical, digital and psychosocial safety, and will include topics relevant to reporters working in the US, including those covering elections, as part of the IWMF’s Newsroom Safety Across America Tour.
- Over the course of two days, participants will learn the fundamentals of risk assessment and mitigation, personal security, covering protests and civil unrest, digital safety, active shooter and weapons awareness, and trauma and self-care.
- Applicants must be able to attend the full two-day training to be eligible. Transportation and lodging is the responsibility of participants.
- The course will coincide with an exhibition of Anja Niedringhaus’ photography at the Bronx Documentary Center.
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to journalists of all genders.
- Both staff and freelance journalists may apply, but freelancers will be given priority.
- Journalists who have not received safety training will be given priority.
- Must be able to attend all two days of the training.
For more information, visit IWMF.
