Global Journalist Security: Training for Reporters on the Front Lines

Global Journalist Security is a new private security firm that provides journalists, human rights advocates, non-profit groups, private news organizations, and citizen journalists with consulting and training in security and self-defense. GJS was launched in November 2011 and founded by its Executive Director Frank Smyth, a prolific foreign affairs freelance journalist and senior advisor for journalist security for the Committee to Protect....

According to Smyth, “journalist security” is a relatively new concept that emerged only in the past two decades. At the beginning, endangered journalists were basically taught to deal with threats pertaining to a war zone and military contingencies. But such programs are only partially effective, as they don’t focus on situations where journalists face other kinds of risks; the fact is, in 2011 more journalists have been deliberately murdered than killed in armed conflicts....

Sampsonia Way interviewed GJS Executive Director Frank Smyth via email in order to better understand Global Journalist Security’s work.

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