Journalists today navigate an increasingly hostile world with tools that were not built with them in mind. Traditional safety resources are static, siloed and structured around the imagined foreign correspondent of decades past. The platforms journalists rely on for secure communication are owned by corporations whose bottom lines have little to do with press freedom. And the reporters who need the most support — freelancers, student journalists, those working in the Global South, and journalists from historically marginalized communities — are the ones consistently left without any. The Journalism Source of Safety (J-SOS) app is being built to bolster the organizations and individuals working to change that. ...
We are in active user research right now, and we need the input of journalists. Please take our user research survey as it directly shapes what we build. And if you want to be a beta tester of the app as we build it, please reach out to me at tara@authoritycollective.org.
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