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THIS WEEK: Safe on the Job
Press freedom is under attack.
The United States fell to 57th in the 2025 Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index. We are below countries like Poland, Ghana, Estonia, and South Africa. That marks our lowest rating since the index’s inception in 2002.
With this in mind, the Journalism Protection Institute at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism recently released a safety guidebook.
Some Important Takeaways
Journalists are no longer just neutral observers. They’re targets.
Safety prioritization and preparedness should be embedded into your newsroom’s culture.
Editors should be aware when assigning stories that identity-based risk is rising.
Legal warfare, surveillance, and subpoenas are new tools that may be used against your news outlet to suppress you.
Building safety into your reporting routine can help protect you.
MORE RESOURCES
A Journalist’s Guide to Protest Safety
SOME ALARMING READING
The story I have not told until now: Neo-Nazi threats and harassment
RSF condemns wave of violence against journalists covering Los Angeles protests
Nashville journalist speaks out after ICE detention, calls experience ‘terrifying’
Nashville journalist’s release from ICE detention delayed, slowing action in federal lawsuit
FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move
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Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, founder of Faculty First Responders and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Ralph Wilson, founder of the Corporate Genome Project and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
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