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CPJ’s safety experts provide information and support to all journalists, including freelancers and media workers, around the world. They host free, expert, information sessions with individual journalists or newsrooms on risk assessment, physical safety and digital security.
If you, a colleague, or your news organization has a safety-related question and would like to work with a CPJ expert, please complete one of the forms below.
External Resources for Journalists
- Mental health tips and resources for journalists, International Journalists’ Network
- How journalists can work from home securely, Freedom of the Press Foundation
- Press freedom and government transparency during COVID-19, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Mental health considerations during COVID-19 outbreak, World Health Organization
- Coronavirus: Resources for reporters, First Draft
- Mental health experts offer counsel on staying calm during coronavirus pandemic, Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post
- Media ethics, safety and mental health: reporting in the time of Covid-19, Ethical Journalism Network
- Coronavirus Response Toolkit, National Association of Broadcasters
- How journalists can fight stress from covering the coronavirus, Al Tompkins and Sidney Tompkins, Poynter
- Covering the Coronavirus Pandemic, Student Press Law Center
- Resources for Freelancers Navigating COVID-19, Association of Independents in Radio
Webinars and Videos for COVID-19 Safety
Following is a list of webinars that discuss journalist physical and psychosocial safety around covering COVID-19. This list will be updated as more videos become available.
- DART Center For Journalism and Trauma: Self-Care and Peer Support
- EWA (Education Writers Association): Prioritizing Mental Health Care and Coverage During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- First Draft: Reporting Challenges Around COVID-19
- FFR (Frontline Freelance Register): COVID-19 risk assessments and reporting from hospitals
- First Draft: Reporting on Coronavirus: Mental Wellness and Vicarious Trauma
- GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network): Resilience & Reporting: Staying Healthy & San
- GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network): Staying Safe: How to Safely Report a Pandemic
- HP Risk Management and DuPont: Webinar explaining the correct procedure for donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE)
- IJNet (International Journalists’ Network): #IJNetLive Webinar: Journalists’ Mental Health
- IJNet (International Journalists’ Network): Self-Care on the Frontline for Journalists
- IWMF (International Women’s Media Foundation): Making the World Hurt Less: Enhancing Wellbeing During a Time of Stress
- NewsLaundry and CPJ: How Indian Journalists Can Cover the Coronavirus Outbreak Safely
- PHR (Physicians for Human Rights): COVID-19 Mental Health Impacts with Dr. Gail Saltz and Dr. Kerry Sulkowicz
- Poynter: Al and Rev. Sidney Tompkins help journalists covering COVID-19 manage newsroom stress
- WAN-IFRA (World Association of News Publishers): Ensuring the Safety of Field Reporters during COVID-19