Workshop: Reporting Safely from Crisis Zones

October 17-19, 2014
Columbia Journalism School
2960 Broadway
New York, NY, 10027, United States

Specialists will provide instruction in the following areas:

  • Risk assessment: making the right decisions before and during an assignment, setting limits, sound practices amid riots, snipers, mines, shooting, roadblocks, infiltrators and general mayhem.
  • Trauma: emotional self-care on troubling stories.
  • Cyber security: safeguarding sensitive communications and data. Codes, encryption and cloud computing.
  • Emergency first aid: tourniquets, triage, fractures and bullet wounds.
  • Rape/assault prevention, setting boundaries, delaying tactics, basic self-defense, healing.

Lead Instructor: Judith Matloff, adjunct faculty, Columbia Journalism School

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