Institute to host 'Journalism Stay Safe Day' Aug. 28

Reporters generally run towards danger, but lately they have been attracting it.

Because of the heightened threats against members of the journalism profession, the National Press Club and its nonprofit affiliate, the National Press Club Journalism Institute, in partnership with and the National Press Foundation, are devoting a half day to the topic of reporter safety on Aug. 28 from 9.30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There is no cost to attend this event. However tickets are required. Ticket reservations can be made online.

Training to provide important, actionable information for reporters and newsroom managers.

In the morning, two workshops in the Club’s Zenger Room at 9.30 a.m., and then at 10.45 a.m. will offer practical tips.

Sandy Johnson, president of the National Press Foundation, will host representatives of Orbis Operations, for a presentation on "advanced situational awareness training," to help reporters recognize early warning signs of danger and how to avoid it. Barbara Cochran, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, will discuss with reporters and other experts how to defuse threatening situations when they begin to aris

The day will close with a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event in the Club’s Ballroom with Trif Alatzas, publisher and editor-in-chief of Baltimore Sun Media, which includes the Capital Gazette in Annapolis where five employees lost their lives in a mass shooting on June 28.

The staff members who died were Wendi Winters, John McNamara, Robert Hiaasen, Rebecca Smith and Gerald Fischman. In his first public address since the shooting, Alatzas will discuss how his colleagues are coping with the massacre and what he believes the media needs to learn from the tragedy.

Contact Doug Harbrecht at [email protected] or Crystal White at [email protected] with questions.