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Press Freedom Defense Fund - Trainings

THE INTERCEPT MEDIA INC

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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/

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