Across the globe, governments have issued emergency and drastic measures aimed at
tracking the spread of COVID-19 and safeguarding public health. Notwithstanding the …

Online hate and harassment poses a threat to the digital safety of people globally. In light of
this risk, there is a need to equip as many people as possible with advice to stay safer …

Internet surveillance has become a crucial issue for journalism. The “Snowden moment” has
shed light on the risks that journalists and their sources face while communicating online …

Abstract Information security tools have gained prominence and importance in the
journalism field and are now being adopted more frequently by newsrooms and …

Mob censorship, which “expresses the will of ordinary citizens to exert power over journalists
through discursive violence” is traditionally considered a grassroots phenomenon. However …

This paper utilizes concepts from new institutionalism to help explain journalists' and news
organizations' resistance to implementing security-related practices despite a deteriorating …

In this contribution, using a case-study approach, we focus on the assassination of Ján
Kuciak and his fiancée and explore the impact and consequences that it had on the …

This is a study on digital security and press freedom, specifically the freedom from
surveillance and the freedom to private and secure communication. We study journalists' …

This article is an exploratory study of the influence of beat and employment status on the
information security culture of journalism (security-related values, mental models, and …

Over the last several years, numerous journalists and news organizations have reported
incidents in which their communications have been hacked, intercepted, or retrieved. In …