Exiled Newsrooms: Managing Teams And Investigations

The challenges of managing investigative projects and teams within a hostile press environment are magnified even further in exile. How can newsroom leaders navigate threats, bans, team dislocation, and censorship circumvention technologies to access documents, sources, and indeed local audiences from afar? In this panel, editors from Venezuela, Afghanistan, and Burundi share transferable techniques to maintain healthy teams and investigations while in exile, as well as insights on leveraging digital tools and risk mitigation methods that could benefit any newsroom.