A presentation to the International Newsroom Summit in Amsterdam on October 14th, outlining the key questions being examined as part of a UNESCO-Commissioned global study on journalists' source protection I'm leading for the World Editors Forum/WAN-IFRA

1. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
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3. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
Objectives
1. Map legal protections for
journalists’ sources globally
2. Assess the effectiveness of these
protections in 2014
3. Identify international case studies
that demonstrate
issues/problems/best practice
4. Make recommendations to
UNESCO

4. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
Key questions
1. Is it possible to keep journalists’ sources
confidential in the digital age?
1. What laws exist globally to support
journalists’ ethical obligation to protect
their sources from unmasking?
1. To whom do these laws apply? (Bloggers,
tweeters, whistleblowers who ‘go direct’?)

5. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
Key questions
4. How are legal and institutional protections
being adapted to digital realities?
5. What are the potential consequences of
this shifting landscape for acts of investigative
journalism?
6. How should we respond?

6. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
Digital realities
1. Mass surveillance
1. National security
1. Role of third party intermediaries
1. Changing definitions

7. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
How can you get involved?
1. Share your experiences
2. Show us your case studies
3. Spread the word
1. Survey

8. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
Trend 1: Shielding Journalism
in the Age of Surveillance
“… the implications are so
profound and so hard to talk
about without sounding like a
member of the ‘tin foil hat
brigade,' but it is going to
become one of the most
preoccupying issues for
journalists, and should be
more urgently [addressed]”
Janine Gibson, The Guardian

9. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
The disclaimer bit…
Disclaimer: While this presentation was
produced within the framework for research
conducted for UNESCO funded by the Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency
(Sida), ideas, opinions and findings are not
necessarily those of UNESCO or Sida and do not
commit the organisations.

10. UNESCO Internet Study:
Privacy and Journalists’ Sources
Contact me
@julieposetti
julie.posetti@wan-ifra.org
#SourcesStudy