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, [email protected] 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 > <http://www.cpj.org/security/2012/10/finding-common-cause-from-first-online-journalist.php> > > | Comments (0) > <http://www.cpj.org/security/2012/10/finding-common-cause-from-first-online-journalist.php#comments> > > > Frank Smyth > Executive Director > Global Journalist Security > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Tel. + 1 202 244 0717 > Cell + 1 202 352 1736 > Twitter: @JournoSecurity > Website: www.journalistsecurity.net <http://www.journalistsecurity.net> > PGP Public Key <http://www.journalistsecurity.net/franks-pgp-public-key> > > > Please consider our Earth before printing this email. > > Confidentiality Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are > confidential. 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