Photos: Foley Foundation Journalism Safety Task Force

Alan Kotok

October 16, 2023

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok National Press Club president and Axios manager editor for standards Eileen O'Reilly welcomes attendees and gives opening remarks.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Diane Foley, founder and president of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, gives opening remarks and introduces the panel.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Ellen Shearer, right, board chair of the Foley Foundation and emerita professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Looking on is Tom Durkin, director of journalist education and safety training, at the Foley Foundation and Marquette Center for Peacemaking.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Tom Durkin, center, director of journalist education and safety training at the Foley Foundation and Marquette Center for Peacemaking. Looking on left, Eric Phillips, program manager, Office of Language Programming at Voice of America, and Ellen Shearer, board chair of the Foley Foundation and emerita professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok The Foley Foundation Journalist Safety Task Force panel.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Eric Phillips, center, program manager, Office of Language Programming at Voice of America. Looking on, left, Jason Reich, vice president of safety and security at The New York Times, and Tom Durkin, director of journalist education and safety training at the Foley Foundation and Marquette Center for Peacemaking.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Jason Reich, center, vice president of safety and security at The New York Times. Looking on, left, Jane Foley, founder and president of the Foley Foundation, and Eric Phillips, program manager, Office of Language Programming at Voice of America.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Ellen Shearer, right, board chair of the Foley Foundation and emerita professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, served as Q&A moderator. Looking on, left, Eric Phillips, program manager, Office of Language Programming at Voice of America, and Tom Durkin, director of journalist education and safety training, Foley Foundation and Marquette Center for Peacemaking.

Diane Foley, founder and president of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation dedicated to press freedoms, representatives from the New York Times and the Voice of America and journalism educators formerly with Marquette and Northwestern launched a new Journalist Safety Task Force at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Oct. 16, 2023.