Risks facing freelance journalists to be topic of NPC Journalism Institute Program April 23

In light of the increasing brutality against journalists overseas, the National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and the Committee to Protect Journalists will discuss the risks faced by freelance journalists in conflict zones on Thursday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Holeman Lounge.

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The event, “Freelancers at Risk: Photojournalism and the Call for Global Safety Standards,” will include panelists from journalism organizations in London, New York, Boston and Washington. Panelists will discuss baseline standards for hiring and protecting freelance journalists working in war zones.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Rohde, formerly with the New York Times and now with Reuters, will moderate the first panel, “Freelance Photographers.” He was kidnapped and held for seven months by the Taliban 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, “Implementing the Guidelines.”