Panel to address dangers faced by overseas journalists
The Investigative Reporting Workshop, the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Committee to Protect Journalists will address the growing issue of brutality against journalists overseas during two panels beginning at 9 a.m. April 23.
“Freelancers at Risk: Photojournalism and the Call for Global Safety Standards” will include
panelists from journalism organizations in London, New York, Boston and Washington who can discuss baseline standards for hiring and protecting freelance journalists working in war zones.
Registration is $5 for NPC members and $10 for the public. Check in begins at 8:30 a.m. with the program running from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Rohde, formerly of The New York Times and now with Reuters, will moderate the first panel on freelance photographers. Rohde was kidnapped and held for seven months in Taliban captivity in Afghanistan before his escape in 2009.
Charles Sennott, co-founder of GlobalPost, one of the publications for which James Foley was working when he was taken hostage in Syria, will moderate the second panel, on implementing safety guidelines.