Great new report by @kjberdan (now part of the @citizenlab team!) on the overwhelming and fractured digital security advice out there for journalists: https://cltc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Online_Security_Guides_for_Journalists.pdf. THREAD. 1/

As the paper outlines, attacks against the media have grown over the past years. Yet, journalists are (still) not particularly well-equipped to deal with digital security threats. 2/

This paper argues that part of the problem is that online security guides for journalists "do not prioritize their content effectively, and provide no clear path for users to improve their security in a time-efficient way." Advice is also inconsistent across guides. 3/

It sets out broad recommendations towards remedying this problem: start with risk, integrate security practices into the workflow, see security as a competitive advantage, and integrate security education into j-schools. 4/

[On a side note, my B.A. was in journalism in Canada @JournalismCU (2009 grad). I don't remember taking a single course on digital security or security at all - has that changed?] 5/

As @citizenlab recently outlined in a report on the targeting of @AJENews journalists & an Al-Araby journalist with no-click spyware, improving journalists' security is critical due to growing difficulties in detecting spyware (among other reasons). https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hacked-with-suspected-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit/ END.