The Medill National Security Journalism Initiative
and
Reporters Without Borders
In order to preserve access to sensitive information and to protect their sources, reporters must be aware of basic online security issues and easy-to-use tools to protect their work. This expertise is not just necessary for reporters’ safety, but also for ensuring that sources feel their identities will be protected if necessary—a cornerstone of a robust press.
This hands-on cybersecurity training workshop will give reporters the tools they need for cyber safety.
It will be led by Reporters Without Borders’ senior online security adviser Stephane Koch. Koch has led similar workshops domestically at the Medill School of Journalism, the National Press Club and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as internationally in the Middle East and South East Asia for local journalists.
No previous experience with online security issues is required to attend the workshop. All that’s needed is a laptop.
Participants will leave with an array of resources and software. They are shown risks, principles, practices and tools designed to keep their data and information secure.
The workshop’s lessons include:
· mobile phone traceability and communications interception possibilities
· dangers of public wifi networks
· metadata
· password manager and 2nd step verification on many web accounts
· using a VPN or/and Tor
· erasing deleted data
· preparing your computer for travel in at-risk countries
· encrypting data
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: OCT . 16.
To register for this free training session, please contact Tiffany Roberts of the Medill National Security Journalism Intiative, tiffany.roberts@northwestern.edu or 202-661-0107.
