International correspondents: Learn how to protect yourselves, Monday, Nov. 9

A panel of foreign correspondents and representatives from news organizations will discuss protection for freelance foreign correspondents Monday, Nov. 9, from 7 p.m.to 8:30 p.m. in the Conference Rooms.

As more news organizations close down foreign bureaus, reporting from conflict zones is falling to freelance journalists more than ever before. What do you need to know to report effectively and also protect yourself? What are news organizations doing to protect their freelance correspondents?

The panel will include:

• Delphine Halgand, director of the Washington, D.C., office of Reporters Without Borders, a non-profit that defends freedom of the press. She runs the U.S. activities for the organization and advocates for journalists, bloggers and media rights worldwide.


• Charles M. Sennott, founder and executive director of the Ground Truth Project and co--founder of GlobalPost. The Ground Truth Project is dedicated to training the next generation of international journalists for the digital age. Sennott has reported on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 15 countries.


• Rasha Elass, independent journalist, recently returned to Washington after 10 years as a freelancer covering the Middle East, including the war in Syria, for Reuters, The Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio (NPR). She is currently the Washington correspondent for The Arab Weekly, published out of London, and continues to freelance for various media outlets.


• Greg Myre is the international editor for digital news at NPR. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent from 1987 to 2007 with The New York Times and the Associated Press and spent more than a decade based in the Middle East.


• Douglas Jehl is the foreign editor of The Washington Post. He oversees all news coverage outside the United States, directing a staff that includes 18 reporters in 15 foreign bureaus, as well as four editors in Washington.

The panel will be moderated by Carmen Russell-Sluchansky, a freelance writer and multimedia journalist who has reported from numerous locations around the world including Haiti, China, Japan, the Middle East, Central America, and Southeast Asia.

The event is free for Club members; $10 for non-members. For more information, click here.