Safety clinics for journalists and editors
Ven 17 aprile 2026
09:00
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Journalists, editors and news managers attending this year’s festival can sign up for free tailored safety consultations with leading international safety experts covering one of the following topics:
> physical safety and risk assessment
> digital security and surveillance
> online harassment
> legal safety
> psychological safety, trauma management and self-care
> newsroom safety protocols
> safety responsibilities as an editor / duty of care
These one-to-one clinics, organised by ACOS Alliance and Committee to Protect Journalists, are suitable for journalism professionals and teams at all stages of their career who are looking for practical advice and guidance on a specific issue, assignment, story or situation. They are particularly useful for those who already have a basic knowledge of safety.
All clinics must be pre-booked so applicants can be matched with the appropriate expert. Places are strictly limited so priority will be given to those who book their spot online before the start of the festival. Book here.
50-minute slots are available from 09:00 to 18:00 on Thursday 16, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 April.
Kindly note that the Centro Alessi has two entrances, one in Via Mazzini and one in Via Danzetta (parallel streets). The entrance for the clinics is in Via Danzetta.
These clinics form part of the 3-day festival Safety Hub situated in the Centro Alessi.
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Alison Baskerville
Alison Baskerville is editorial safety specialist at Reuters and an experienced safety specialist and trainer working within the journalism community. A military veteran with experience in Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a 10-year career as a working photojournalist, Alison has blended working in high-risk environments to provide realistic and relevant training for journalists with a focus on more inclusive training practices that meet the needs of the unique and diverse identity of the global community of journalists.
Jeff Belzil
Jeff Belzil is the Security Director at the International Women's Media Foundation, supporting the safety of investigative journalists and newsrooms worldwide. A decorated Canadian army veteran with three combat tours in Afghanistan and recipient of the Star of Military Valor, Jeff has trained over 5,000 journalists globally on physical security, counter-surveillance, and hostile environment protocols. He has served as a security advisor in high-risk areas across Latin America Ukraine and Africa, with specialised expertise in personal safety, violent protest coverage, and operational security for journalists covering dangerous assignments. There is no photo in this profile at the request of the speaker.
Yemile Bucay
Yemile Bucay is a journalism risk advisor and safety trainer working to promote a culture of safety in the profession in order to have a sustainable, resilient and free press. She was BuzzFeed's Risk & Security Manager, where she worked with staff and freelance journalists of BuzzFeed News and HuffPost. She was also a Fellow in the International Women’s Media Foundation's Next Gen Safety Trainers program, a cohort of media security professionals trained for the newly emergent risks faced in media today. Before working in news safety, Bucay was a journalist who reported on immigration, produced a documentary on violence in her native Mexico, led research on online information ecosystems, and taught the business of journalism at Columbia’s Journalism School. Bucay received a B.A. in Humanities from Yale University, and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Mike Christie
Mike Christie is a veteran international journalist who ran editorial safety at Reuters for almost a decade until the end of 2023. He has since set up a journalist safety consultancy, Lechosa LLC, to help media organizations protect their newsrooms against physical, digital and emotional threats. He also designs and runs hostile environment training courses.
Harlo Holmes
Harlo Holmes is the Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and was a regular contributor to the open source mobile security collective The Guardian Project. Harlo is also an adjunct professor at New York University.