A Call for Global Safety Principles & Practices
February 12, 2015
In response to the growing wave of intimidation, abduction and killing of journalists around the world, more than two dozen prominent news organizations and advocacy groups today signed on to an unprecedented set of international safety standards for freelance reporters on dangerous assignments.
The standards for international news organizations and the freelance reporters who work with them are outlined in a document titled “Global Safety Principles and Practices,” which was released on Thursday evening at an event, open to the public, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by the school’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.