UNESCO is the lead UN Agency for promoting freedom of expression and safety of journalists as part of its mandate to “promote the free flow of ideas by word and image”.
Dr Jennifer Henrichsen
Assistant Professor at The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University , USA
journalism safety digital security information security democracy authoritarianism new institutionalism
Jennifer R. Henrichsen is an Assistant Professor at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. She is also an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She received her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Henrichsen's research examines how adversaries exploit weaknesses in the spread of information across organizations and institutions to contaminate the information ecosystem and to erode trust in knowledge systems. Specifically, she assesses how these and other challenges – from state and corporate surveillance to physical and digital attacks against the media – are creating an epistemic crisis for journalism. Henrichsen has published 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reports and has received numerous fellowships, including from Yale, Columbia, the University of Fribourg, and the U.S. Department of State's Fulbright Program.
Definition of journalists' safety
I use the same conceptualization as authors Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova et al. (2023). Journalists’ safety is "the extent to which journalists can perform their work-related tasks without facing threats to their physical, psychological, digital, and financial integrity and well-being" (p. 1214).- Research focuses:
- Physical, Psychological, Digital, Legal
- Methods used in research:
- Surveys, Interviews, Qualitative content analysis
- Countries of research focus:
- United States, Mexico
