Oops. Here is the link to the NPC event on "threats to journalists' online security."
Frank Smyth
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Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Online Journalists on the Frontlines
From: <fr...@journalistsecurity.net>
Date: Sat, October 13, 2012 2:01 pm
To: "liberationtech" <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu>
We could talk about it, Asher. Getting journalists to show up and participate is the challenge.There are events along similar lines from time to time like this one at the NPC in DC later this month. A CryptoParty for journalists would work best at one of many journalist events or conventions.Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist SecurityTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell + 1 202 352 1736Twitter: @JournoSecurityWebsite: www.journalistsecurity.netPlease consider our Earth before printing this email.Confidentiality Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and any copies. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Online Journalists on the Frontlines
From: Asher Wolf <asherw...@cryptoparty.org>
Date: Fri, October 12, 2012 8:47 pm
To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Hi Frank,
Just a thought - would your group be interested in hosting CryptoParties
for journalists?
Regards,
Asher Wolf.
On 13/10/12 7:07 AM, fr...@journalistsecurity.net wrote:
> This is a piece relevant for this group. As always, I'd welcome any thoughts,
> comments, complaints...
>
> Every year, for decades, journalists from print, radio, or television media have
> dominated the ranks of those targeted for murder or otherwise killed on the
> job--every year, that is, until 2008, when a new era began. The same year that
> Facebook gained 100 million users
> <https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=28111272130>and Twitter began seeing
> exponential growth <http://mashable.com/2009/01/09/twitter-growth-2008/>, online
> journalists around the world began getting killed and imprisoned at rates never
> before seen. Today, more than one-third of all journalists being killed, and
> almost half of all journalists being jailed, were working online when they were
> targeted.
>
> http://www.cpj.org/security/2012/10/finding-common-cause-from-first-online-journalist.php
>
>
>
> *Finding common cause from first online journalist murder*
>
> By Frank Smyth/Senior Adviser for Journalist Security
> <http://www.cpj.org/blog/author/frank-smyth>
> Georgy Gongadze, shown here the summer of 2000, was the first online journalist
> killed in retaliation for his work. (AFP/Dima Gavrish)
> Georgy Gongadze, shown here the summer of 2000, was the first online journalist
> killed in retaliation for his work. (AFP/Dima Gavrish)
> The first online journalist killed for his work disappeared one night 12 years
> ago in the Ukraine. Georgy Gongadze, 31, left a colleague's house to return to
> his home with his wife and two young children. He never arrived. Seven weeks
> later, a farmer, a few hours' drive away, discovered the journalist's headless
> corpse <http://www.cpj.org/killed/2000/georgy-gongadze.php>.
> Gongadze edited the website /Ukrainska Pravda/ and ran stories about corruption
> and cronyism like no one else in the nation's state-dominated print and
> broadcast media. Later, the country's then-president was implicated in an
> audiotape in which he was allegedly heard speaking to aides about the need for
> Gongadze's murder.
> The latest online journalist to die in retaliation for his work was executed
> last month in Syria. Government soldiers killed Abdel Karim al-Oqda, 27, and two
> of his friends before setting fire to the journalist's house. Al-Oqda was
> preparing <http://www.cpj.org/killed/2012/abdel-karim-al-oqda.php> for a day's
> work when the soldiers arrived at his home in the city of Hama. He was a
> cameraman for the Shaam News Network, a Damascus-based citizen news organization
> that has posted tens of thousands of videos on its website as well as on
> YouTube, much of which have also run on international news outlets including
> Al-Jazeera and the BBC.
> Every year, for decades, journalists from print, radio, or television media have
> dominated the ranks of those targeted for murder or otherwise killed on the
> job--every year, that is, until 2008, when a new era began. The same year that
> Facebook gained 100 million users
> <https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=28111272130> and Twitter began seeing
> exponential growth <http://mashable.com/2009/01/09/twitter-growth-2008/>, online
> journalists around the world began getting killed and imprisoned at rates never
> before seen. Today, more than one-third of all journalists being killed, and
> almost half of all journalists being jailed, were working online when they were
> targeted.
> Through the 2000s, anywhere from 24 to 74 journalists were killed
> <http://www.cpj.org/killed/> every year, according to CPJ research, but only one
> or, at most, two online journalists were among them until 2008. Five online
> journalists were killed that year, comprising 12 percent of all journalists
> killed worldwide. CPJ research shows that last year, at least nine online
> journalists were killed, but this year already, a record 17 online journalists
> have been killed. If the trend continues, 2012 will mark the first year
> <http://www.cpj.org/killed/2012/> that more than one out of three journalists
> killed worldwide was working online.
> Online journalists are increasingly ending up behind bars as well. In 2007
> <http://www.cpj.org/imprisoned/127-journalists-in-prison-as-of-december-1-2007.php>,
> less than one out of three of all imprisoned journalists was working online when
> he or she was arrested or simply led away. But the watershed came, again, in
> 2008, when online journalists surpassed
> <http://www.cpj.org/reports/2008/12/cpjs-2008-prison-census-online-and-in-jail.php>print
> and online journalists for the first time as the largest single category of
> journalists behind bars. Since then, online journalists have remained the
> largest group of journalists in jail, comprising 45 to 50 percent
> <http://www.cpj.org/imprisoned/2011.php> of all journalists imprisoned worldwide.
> But the numbers tell only part of the story. Like with Gongadze and al-Oqda,
> there is a face and a life and a world of loved ones behind every imprisonment
> or killing.
> Last month, I spoke about online journalists at risk with my colleague Danny
> O'Brien, CPJ's Internet advocacy coordinator, at the Online News Association
> panel
> <http://ona2012.sched.org/event/bd4d4437860ee777b1ab07ea7fc45317#.UHgY9ml27WE>
> in San Francisco. One of the points I made was that most journalists who have
> been killed on the job--no matter their medium--have been murdered, while the
> rate of impunity <http://www.cpj.org/killed/murdered.php>--or the degree to
> which the killers get away with murder--has risen from nearly nine out of 10
> cases over the past 20 years to more than nine of 10 cases since 2008.
> During the panel, another colleague, Rosental Alves
> <https://twitter.com/Rosental>, a former top Brazilian journalist who today has
> no less than 13,271 Twitter followers online, talked about the need to create "a
> culture of security" to help train journalists--no matter their medium--on how
> to protect themselves in the face of myriad and evolving threats from violence
> to malware
> <http://www.cpj.org/internet/2012/08/dear-cpj-some-malware-from-your-friend.php>
> attacks.
> There has been partial justice in Gongadze's murder. In 2008, three police
> officers were convicted and sentenced in connection with the journalist's
> abduction and murder, and in August 2011, Aleksei Pukach, a former Ukrainian
> general with the nation's Interior Ministry, confessed in a closed court trial
> <http://www.cpj.org/2011/08/gongadze-suspect-admits-to-killing-implicates-kuch.php>
> that he had murdered Gongadze at the behest of then-President Leonid Kuchma and
> other top officials, according to interviews with lawyers for the Gongadze
> family who were allowed to attend the proceedings.
> But Pukach's ongoing trial has been marred by irregularities
> <http://www.cpj.org/2011/03/cpj-concerned-by-irregularities-in-ukraines-gongad.php>,
> delays, and secrecy
> <http://www.cpj.org/2011/08/gongadze-murder-suspects-trial-should-be-open-to-p.php>.
> And though authorities indicted Kuchma in 2011, they dropped
> <http://www.cpj.org/2011/12/ukraine-must-prosecute-kuchma-in-gongadze-murder.php> the
> charges against him eight months later. He has never faced trial.
> The first murder of an online journalist 12 years ago should alarm all reporters
> everywhere. And the threat of retaliation for critical work, the possibility of
> violence, and the likelihood of impunity should bring journalists of all kinds
> together, whether or not they work online.
> Frank Smyth is CPJ's senior adviser for journalist security. He has reported on
> armed conflicts, organized crime, and human rights from nations including El
> Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Cuba, Rwanda, Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan,
> Jordan, and Iraq. Follow him on Twitter @JournoSecurity
> <https://twitter.com/#!/JournoSecurity>.
>
>
> *Tags:*
>
> * Abdel Karim al-Oqda <http://www.cpj.org/tags/abdel-karim-al-oqda>,
> * Aleksei Pukach <http://www.cpj.org/tags/aleksei-pukach>,
> * Blogger <http://www.cpj.org/tags/blogger>,
> * Facebook <http://www.cpj.org/tags/facebook>,
> * Georgy Gongadze <http://www.cpj.org/tags/georgy-gongadze>,
> * Impunity <http://www.cpj.org/tags/impunity>,
> * Internet <http://www.cpj.org/tags/internet>,
> * Killed <http://www.cpj.org/tags/killed>,
> * Leonid Kuchma <http://www.cpj.org/tags/leonid-kuchma>,
> * Social Media <http://www.cpj.org/tags/social-media>,
> * Twitter <http://www.cpj.org/tags/twitter>,
> * Ukrainska Pravda <http://www.cpj.org/tags/ukrainska-pravda>
>
> October 12, 2012 2:36 PM ET | Permalink
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>
>
> Frank Smyth
> Executive Director
> Global Journalist Security
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