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A year to invest in the security of local journalists

“If the world is demanding these stories, then reporters must begin asking for risk mitigation strategies, training, legal options, and monetary resources.”

In 2019, news outlets will invest in journalist security in new and powerful ways. Readers will be at the forefront, pushing for details about how news organizations take care of the people they ask to cover the world’s most challenging stories.

International news organizations have long provided unequal security options for foreign correspondents and local journalists. This will begin to change in 2019, as news organizations realize that security parity for local journalists requires holistic duty of care.

At Global Press, we employ dozens of local journalists who live in the communities that they cover. They can’t run to an embassy or jump on a plane when things get dicey, so we’ve had to create a comprehensive Duty of Care program that provides for the physical, emotional, digital, and legal security of every journalist in our network. And it’s time all news outlets did the same.

In 2019, Global Press will make its industry-leading Duty of Care program available to more than 1,000 local journalists outside of the Global Press network for the first time. We will share our resources and offer our curriculum to any local or global news outlet to demonstrate that it is possible to better provide for local journalist security. From localized first aid and culturally appropriate trauma counseling to surveillance detection and robust legal support, local journalist security is complex — but possible.

The tragedies and lessons of 2018 have made it clear that we all have a role to play in local journalist security. In 2019, publishers and editors will invest in holistic programs that ensure local reporters, fixers, translators, and sources are safe. This will require that long-term security mechanisms, including digital security training, are put into place in existing bureaus and for freelancers.

Local reporters asked to cover conflict, corruption, and chaos will also begin to self-advocate more. If the world is demanding these stories, then reporters must begin asking for risk mitigation strategies, training, legal options, and monetary resources.

And finally, as readers, we will all play a role in insisting that news outlets invest equally in the security of local reporters tasked with capturing the stories that help us understand our world.

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Adam Smith   Platforms will have to help rebuild trust in news

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Steve Grove   A reckoning for tech’s work with news

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John Garrett   You can’t raise prices forever

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Talia Stroud   Engaging people across lines of difference

Peter Bale   Venture capital runs out of patience

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Michael Rain   The year of the culturally relevant curator

Nico Gendron   Reaching Generation Z beyond the coasts

Tamar Charney   Seriously: What do you do for people?

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Monique Judge   Committing to the truth, calling out lies

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Pia Frey   You can’t solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis

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Lauren Katz   Community becomes a core newsroom value

Jonas Kaiser   Catching up with “Neuland”

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Nisha Chittal   The homepage makes a comeback

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Joanne McNeil   Building a digital hospice

Jared Newman   AI-generated fakes launch a software arms race

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Mandy Jenkins   Fight the urge to run away from social media

Christa Scharfenberg and Vickie Baranetsky   The year of the lawsuit

Nathalie Malinarich   Video — yes, video

Steve Henn   Smart speakers get smarter

Logan Molyneux   Seeing social media for what it is

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Sue Cross   Return of the water cooler

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Dan Shanoff   Bet on sports gambling

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Celeste LeCompte   Local news needs local conversation to survive

Zizi Papacharissi   Old interface, say hello to the new interface

Thomas Hanitzsch   The rise of tribal journalism

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Salem Solomon   Correcting our corrections

Stefanie Murray   Local news wakes up and starts collaborating

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Chase Davis   We can acknowledge what we don’t know

Andrea Faye Hart   Doing less harm, not just more good

Frank Chimero   Leave the phone at home and put news on your wrist

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Francesco Zaffarano   Towards a rethinking of journalism on social media

Craig Newmark   The end of “loudspeakers for liars”

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Jeremy Gilbert   AI finally becomes helpful

Robert Hernandez   Racists and sexists get replaced

Dheerja Kaur   A focus on problems, not platforms

Tushar Banerjee   Interactive ads will be the new face of display advertising

Efrat Nechushtai   Journalism wants to be your friend, not your teacher

Mat Yurow   Content competition from the tech companies

Shalabh Upadhyay   A culture clash on India’s growing Internet

Kyra Darnton   A shift to depth in video

Stephanie Edgerly   It’s time to understand the un-audience

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Julia Rubin   Meeting people where they are

Rishad Patel   A design system for responsible publishing

Sarah Marshall   A return to destination journalism

Jonathan Stray   More algorithmic accountability reporting, and a lot of it will be meh

Errin Haines   Say it with me: Racism

Carrie Brown   Advocating a healthy civic life is no journalistic crime

Kawandeep Virdee   Media wants to take care of you

Cherian George   Fake news wins in Asia

Claire Wardle   Forget deepfakes: Misinformation is showing up in our most personal online spaces

Joel Konopo   Influencers become the new liberated power in Africa

Eric Nuzum   The year of the DIY podcast network

Victor Pickard   We will finally confront systemic market failure

Nicholas Jackson   More transparency around newsroom decisions

Kevin D. Grant   A year to embrace journalism as public service

Steve Myers   From trying to cover it all to covering what matters

Francesco Marconi   The year of iterative journalism

Rodney Gibbs   A bright — and young — year for audio