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Empowering Gaza’s journalists through digital safety and awareness

17 September 2025
Last update:18 September 2025
UNESCO has partnered with Press House-Palestine to support journalists by strengthening their skills, supporting their livelihoods, and providing essential mental health and psychosocial support services through a series of trainings. These courses aim to enhance the skills and capabilities of 150 journalists while also promoting freedom of expression.

Professional and Digital Safety Course
The course aims to enhance the capabilities of journalists to protect themselves and their information in the digital environment, especially considering the escalating security and technological challenges they face.

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Creative Writing, Audio Journalism and Podcasting
Participants developed storytelling skills for digital platforms, producing narrative materials inspired by local realities, and created 24 original podcast episodes.

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Media Leadership for Women Journalists
The course covered the role of women journalists in shaping the media landscape, the essential skills of a successful media leader, the importance of self-confidence, effective communication, breaking stereotypes of women journalists in conflict zones, as well as strategies for negotiation and decision-making.

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Mobile and Field Photojournalism
Participants produced over 50 photos and short videos, as well as 20 mobile visual reports. Field projects focused on real-life issues in Gaza, with enhanced visual awareness and caption writing.

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Journalists reporting from crisis and conflict zones face severe threats in carrying out their critical work. Journalists in Gaza daily navigate through a very dangerous work environment, while UNESCO has to date condemned the killing of at least 69 journalists and media workers in the course of their duties since October 2023. Never in a recent conflict has the profession had to pay such a heavy price in such a short space of time.

To the 150 journalists supported by the Organization, this activity was a turning point; they left with safer digital habits, personal and newsroom protection plans, and a shared mission to train their peers. In a region where storytelling is both powerful and perilous, this activity is one step forward in ensuring that journalists can keep doing their vital work confident, connected, and safe.
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