What happens when newsrooms respond to online violence? This practical, solutions-focused session highlights how newsrooms have successfully pushed back against online abuse and shares successful stra...
Viktorya Vilk
Viktorya Vilk is the director for digital safety and free expression at PEN America. She created and runs the organization’s Online Abuse Defense Program, which equips writers and journalists with self-defense resources and training, partners with media organizations and publishers to strengthen protections for writers and journalists, and conducts research and advocacy to hold technology companies accountable for online harms. Her work has been featured on PBS Newshour, The New York Times, Slate and Harvard Business Review and she regularly speaks about digital safety and press freedom, including for the Online News Association, RightsCon, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Journalism and Women’s Symposium and MozFest, among others. She completed graduate degrees, as a Marshall Scholar, at the University of London, and has over a decade of experience working in nonprofits to expand access to the arts and defend creative and press freedom.
World-leading experts in physical safety preparedness, digital security, online harassment, legal defence and psychological well-being are offering free safety clinics to independent journalists and e...
World-leading experts in physical safety preparedness, digital security, online harassment, legal defence and psychological well-being are offering free safety clinics to independent journalists and e...
As threats to journalists take many forms, from digital and legal to physical and psychosocial, what role should safety play in professional journalism practice? And what do we mean when we talk about...
Online abuse is a direct attack against press freedom, intended to intimidate journalists into self-censorship and silence. Reporters are increasingly subjected to online harassment and threats in ret...
Safety clinics for independent journalists will be on offer at this year's festival on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 April. Organised by ACOS Alliance signatory organisations and partners, the clinics prov...
Increasing numbers of journalists, including 73% of all women journalists, have experienced online violence (source: UNESCO/ICFC). As a member of the Coalition Against Online Violence, the ACOS Allian...
Safety clinics for independent journalists will be on offer at this year's festival on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 April. Organised by ACOS Alliance signatory organisations and partners, the clinics prov...
Online harassment is a pervasive and growing tactic, intended to intimidate journalists into self-censorship and silence. More and more reporters, especially women and minorities, are routinely subjec...
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