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Press Freedom Defense Fund - Trainings

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Overview

Press Freedom Defense Fund - Trainings

Overview: The Press Freedom Defense Fund offers industrywide training programs that address the rapidly evolving threat landscape facing reporters, with practical, hands-on guidance.

Purpose: Equip newsrooms and journalists with operational security expertise, legal compliance knowledge, and risk-mitigation strategies.

Training Topics:

Source protection

Covering protests safely

Protecting sensitive information during raids

Digital security

Document retention

Legal compliance

Safeguarding journalism in the AI era

Target Audience:

Journalists working with confidential sources

Newsroom technology managers and IT staff

Editors overseeing sensitive reporting projects

Freelancers handling confidential information

Smaller newsrooms without risk-mitigation infrastructure

Key Services:

Industrywide training programs

Compliance Assurance Program (in partnership with Vance Center's Lawyers for Reporters)

Operational security expertise

Legal support and advocacy

Amicus briefs in precedent-setting cases

Leadership:

Nikita Mazurov: Security researcher focusing on source protection

David S. Bralow: Chief legal officer of The Intercept, co-director of the Fund, adjunct faculty at Yale Law School's Media Freedom of Information & Access Clinic

Sumi Aggarwal: Chief strategy officer and investigative reporter/editor, co-director of the Fund

Website: https://theintercept.com/press-freedom-defense-fund/