Your Rights as a Student Journalist
Below is guidance and tools to help journalists stay safe physically, digitally and legally while reporting in challenging situations. It includes Columbia University resources, risk assessment templates, protest safety tips, digital security toolkits and support from leading journalism organizations.
- CPJ Risk Assessment Template & Communications Plan
- Safety tips for covering protests from the Committee to Protect Journalists
- RCFP Tip Sheet: How to Protect Yourself When Covering A Protest
- Physical And Digital Safety: Civil Disorder
- Digital safety resources from the Committee to Protect Journalists
- Digital security toolbox from the Society of Professional Journalists
- Rory Peck Trust: A Digital Security Risk Assessment
- Free Press Unlimited: Reporters Respond: emergency & legal support
- Front Line Defenders and Security in a Box: Digital Security Tools and Tactics
- Rory Peck Trust: Digital Security
- Rory Peck Trust: Useful Guides and Resources
- Digital First Aid Kit
- Student Press Law Center
- Freedom of Press Foundation – Digital Security Education Guides & Resources
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- SPJ’s Resources for Student Journalists Toolbox