Do you find the need to protect your reporting, your newsroom, and yourself from government interference? This session invites you to share with colleagues the methods you use to secure your notes, shield your sources, and ensure your personal safety.
Journalists around the world face harassment and worse from their governments. Non-state actors in Mexico and Honduras receive de facto impunity for violence against journalists. Exiled journalists from Belarus, Turkey and other countries face assault by their home governments and may be deported by their host countries. In the US, the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said he would prosecute reporters who “lied” about President Trump, and Elon Musk, an adviser to Trump, called for journalists who edited an interview with Kamala Harris to be imprisoned.
The session will be led by Stephen Wolgast, professor and Knight Chair in audience and community engagement in news at the University of Kansas, who spent 19 years as a journalist in the US and Estonia. He is studying the 2023 police raid on the Marion County Record newspaper in the state of Kansas in the US, in which the newsroom’s computers were seized and held for a week. The raid also led to the criminal prosecution of the police chief.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Space is limited: Please sign up here.
Venue: Hotel Sangallo, Via Luigi Masi 9, Perugia - meeting room Il Bacio.
Contact info: wolgast@ku.edu +1 (785) 864-1283
Organised by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas, USA.