CPJ Report: Journalists Shouldn't Have to Act Like Spooks
When counter-surveillance turns into Journalism 101.
Congratulations, the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. You’ve made it into the Committee to Protect Journalists’ annual Attacks on the Press report. There, among the countries, gangs and terrorist groups that jail, threaten and kill journalists, you appear in your own special essay, on how Western governments’ increasingly Orwellian surveillance tactics are changing how journalists do their jobs.
CPJ technologist Tom Lowenthal lays out a landscape that reads like a screenwriter’s imagining of the ways journalists must work to protect themselves and their sources against government surveillance tactics: the adoption, newsroom by newsroom, of anonymous tip system SecureDrop; the swapping out of standard smartphones in favor of the $3,500-a-pop CryptoPhone; the slog that is mastering PGP mail encryption.
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