Solidarity, a key to security, eludes Salvadoran press
Journalist security is really a way of thinking, a way of approaching your work. And fostering professional solidarity is crucial to that approach.
Author Archive for: Frank Smyth
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Entries by Frank Smyth
Caveat utilitor: Satellite phones can always be tracked
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank Smyth“No matter what – unless you ‘know’ otherwise, your Satellite phone almost certainly discloses your exact GPS location in an insecure manner.”
Guatemala’s Cycles of Crime
/in World Policy Journal/by Frank Smyth“With names like the “Brotherhood” (Cofradía) and the “Operators,” the intelligence cliques “developed their own vertical leader-subordinate network of recognition, relationships, and loyalties.”
Practicing journalism in a smaller, riskier world
/in Montana Journalism Review/by Frank SmythPrinting presses inked out text in different written languages for over a 1,000 years, and, in more recent centuries, gave rise to the term we still use for news outlets: the press.
Journalist security: An evolving field
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythWhether it’s safe or even wise to be either on Facebook (or to be too transparent on it) was one of the last points of discussion.
Murdering with Impunity: The Rise in Terror Tactics Against News Reporters
/in Harvard International Review/by Frank SmythMore journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous, but not necessarily in ways that people might expect.
In U.S., Dangerous Misconceptions from TSA Poster
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank Smyth“It is one thing for DHS to act when there is probable cause; it is quite another to abuse that discretion to chill free speech.”