DW Akademie panel discussion in Berlin: Digital Safety for Journalists

Everything from the very real threats journalists face from internet surveillance, to losing control of personal data through mobile messaging applications were all canvassed at DW Akademie’s Digital Safety for Journalists panel discussion at the ARD-Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin.

Joining DW Akademie’s Holger Hank on the panel were Anne Roth (Tactical Technology Collective), Zahi Alawi (DW Akademie), Malte Spitz (German Greens Party), John Goetz (NDR) and William Echikson (Google).

Along with discussing the need for media organizations to be proactive and train journalists to use encryption and secure digital communications, the data retention policies of governments and technology firms, and how the internet should be controlled were also lively debated.

The panel was conducted in both German and English and you can listen to and share the audio of the entire event via SoundCloud. A video will be made available shortly.

The conversation about digital safety for journalists continues on social media via #digisafe. Check out our Storify below highlighting a selection of quotes and comments from the event.