Global Journalist Security

03/30/2026

Reporters without Borders in Paris has put out an excellent guide, the best GJS has seen to date, for frontline journalists about drones and how to stay safe in a drone warfare environment. This link below provides links the RSF Drone Guidebook in English, Ukrainian and Russian, and to videos in English and Ukranian.

Drones — unmanned aerial vehicles (or UAVs) piloted in real time by the Kremlin’s armed forces — have become one of the main threats facing journalists covering Russia’s war in Ukraine, making some areas along the front line almost inaccessible. In partnership with the Kherson-based foundati...

03/28/2026

Israeli Defense Forces target in two strikes a Press vehicle, killing three journalists in southern Lebanon.

The Beirut-based pan-Arab network Al-Mayadeen TV said two of its journalists were killed and Hezbollah-owned broadcaster Al-Manar said one of its camera operators was also killed in an Israeli strike that hit a compound housing journalists.

03/22/2026

Gift Article

"Nearly three years of civil war in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces and the army has spiraled into a humanitarian crisis. In the last year, some of the most intense violence has been concentrated in the Darfur region.

"The Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group, are descended from the lawless Janjaweed, predominantly Arab militias that terrorized Darfur in the early 2000s, when they were accused of committing genocide. The same ethnic rivalries that fueled the chaos in Darfur two decades ago are still at work in the violence today.

"The Rapid Support Forces and the army have both denied responsibility for the attack on the teaching hospital, each blaming the other instead...The attack also injured 89 people, including eight staff members, and damaged the emergency department as well as the hospital’s pediatric and maternity sections, Dr. Tedros added. The teaching hospital is “currently nonfunctional due to the extensive damage caused by the attack,” Dr. Tedros said.""

The group’s director general said 13 children were among those killed in the latest violence in the Darfur region, and he decried the targeting of health care facilities in the civil war.

03/20/2026

GJS has long recommended Protonmail, protected by Swiss privacy laws. But the encrypted email service last week handed over data about an email account involved in the "Stop Cop City" protests against a planned police training facility outside Atlanta to Swiss authorities at the behest of the FBI.

Proton Mail gave FBI payment data from Swiss servers, proving encrypted email privacy has limits when governments use legal treaties to demand user information.

03/14/2026

RIP John Burns

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In a 40-year career that brought him two Pulitzers, he reported from trouble spots around the world, eloquently conveying the chaos of war.

03/12/2026

HT Bill Gentile

How drones are changing the nature of warfare in Ukraine.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CPhRT3jqR/

A Ukrainian media producer explains how modern battlefield conditions have transformed war reporting in Ukraine.

03/12/2026

GJS has long recommended Proton Mail, the encrypted email service that is protected, or so we thought by Swiss privacy laws. Not anymore, apparently. Proton Mail just gave information about a protest, "Stop Cop City," email account in Atlanta, to Swiss authorities who have passed it on to the FBI, according to this account by 404media.

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

03/02/2026

RIP Paul Conroy

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Paul Conroy, the fearless photojournalist who was with Marie Colvin, The Sunday Times war correspondent, when she was killed, has died.

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03/01/2026

Landmines and unexploded ordnance litter western Myanmar, posing a risk to civilians, journalists and others.
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OPINION | The conflict between the Arakan Army and the regime has littered the westernmost state of Myanmar with landmines and unexploded ordnance, adding to the misery of a civilian population coping with war and economic collapse. By Aung Marm Oo.

02/26/2026

"TJ Johnson was wrapping up what he described as an amazing family trip to Puerto Vallarta when violence erupted Feb. 22, after the killing of a powerful cartel leader in Jalisco.

Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, who led the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación and was known as "El Mencho," was killed during a Mexican military operation. His death spurred unrest in Puerto Vallarta and chaos at its airport, as well as at Guadalajara’s airport.

Johnson, who co-hosts a morning show on 104.9 The More in Spencer, Iowa, believes he was among the last travelers to catch a cab from his resort before they stopped taking passengers."

The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico issued a security alert affecting Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana and more.

01/15/2026

Filming ICE and the LAW

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12/31/2025

From our colleagues at the International Women's Media Foundation. Seven women journliasts were killed around the world in 2025.
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