Risk, response, and resiliency in contemporary journalistic practice

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Synthesizing theory, pedagogy and engaged scholarship

This panel organised by the Crisis, Security and Conflict Communication Working Group, features five presentations followed by a group discussion about two main topics:  how journalists and jourjalism students' around the work perceive risk, and how this perception has changed during the 2020 events related to the emergence of Covid-19.

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Chair: Virpi Salojärvi (University of Helsinki)

Revisiting press censorship at times of digital publicity: The case of mob censorship

(00:50 - 14:10)

Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University)

Why they do it? A consideration of how journalism students conceptualise risk and the implications of this

(14:10 - 22:45)

Fergal Quinn (University of Limerick)

Safety practices of journalists working in South Sudan

(22:45 - 30:20)

Richard Stupart (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Journalists, Repression and Fear in Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela

(30:20 - 36:30)

Virpi Salojärvi (University of Helsinki)

Creating a research-based psychological ‘first-aid’ for journalists under duress

(36:30 - 43:30)

Sallie Hughes (University of Miami)

Discussion

(43:30 - 1:11:00)