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The fourth quarter 2023 edition of The IRE Journal highlights journalist safety.

Each print issue of The Journal features centerpiece stories and recurring departments that explore major news trends, techniques behind investigations, outstanding investigative work and core topics relevant to journalists. Print subscriptions to The Journal are included with IRE membership, and members may download archived past issues of the Journal for free when logged into the IRE website.

Nonmembers may purchase a digital copy for $10. Please contact Amy Eaton, IRE director of member services, at amy@ire.org to learn about subscription options.

Contributing writers in this journalist safety edition: Diana R. Fuentes (IRE & NICAR), Kristen Larson and Sean Sposito (The Paranoids), Jan Strozyk (OCCRP), Delphine Reuter (ICIJ), Matt McCabe (KWTV-DT), Society of Professional Journalists MMJ Safety Task Force, Mark Greenblatt (Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, ASU), Rashika Jaipuriar (IRE & NICAR), Chris Vachon (IRE & NICAR), Nakylah Carter (IRE & NICAR), Brian M. Rosenthal (New York Times), Rosalind Adams (The City), Jatara McGee (WLWT), Josh Renaud (St. Louis Post- Dispatch), Yu Ting (independent journalist), Margaux Ewen and Sierra Reeves (Freedom House), Lucy Westcott (Committee to Protect Journalists), Detty Saluling and Gustavo Faleiros (The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting), Gunita Singh and Mayeesha Galiba (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press), Lucy Nash (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism), David Cuillier (Brechner Freedom of Information Project), Bruce Shapiro (Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma).

The cover features Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah covering the war in Ukraine during 2022. On Oct. 13, 2023, an Israeli tank killed him and injured six other journalists with Reuters, Al-Jazeera and Agence France-Presse. Photograph by Ueslei Marcelino (Reuters).

IRE editorial director Doug Meigs edited the issue.