Resilient Reporting: Safety Training for Journalists is a 3-part virtual workshop series presented by Video Consortium in partnership with Radically Rural. Designed for journalists and other visual storytellers, the series offers practical training in physical safety, digital security, and psychological first aid. Led by experts from the International Women's Media Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Media Resilience Network, each workshop provides actionable strategies to help participants assess risk, protect their work, build resilience, and report with greater confidence.
 

Do you find yourself worrying about someone confiscating your raw footage while shooting in the field? Have you ever wondered how to protect your highly sensitive material while working with your favorite film equipment? In our second session, the "Protecting Your Footage" clinic hosted by Freedom of the Press Foundation, we’ll share essential digital security practices to keep you, your team, and your work in safe hands. During this session, you’ll learn why fundamentals like safe passwords and proper authentication are just the onramp towards working with encrypted storage on disk and in the cloud, safer collaborations in editing suites, and more.

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Harlo Holmes is the chief security programs officer at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). She leads a team that boosts newsmakers’ confidence and effectiveness in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist. Harlo was a regular contributor to the open source mobile security collective Guardian Project, where she spearheaded the media metadata verification initiative currently empowering ProofMode, Save by OpenArchive, eyeWitness to Atrocities, and others.