About This Guide¶
This resource collects the advice and experience of journalists, newsroom developers, and security experts, organized into a set of lessons and training materials available for campaign staff who find themselves leading security trainings. In a moment when reporters are asking how to protect themselves and their sources, we want to see more people armed to answer those questions and help campaigns communicate and store data more securely.
The curriculum is hosted by OpenNews, a team that helps developers, designers, and data analysts convene and collaborate on open journalism projects, and BuzzFeed Open Lab, an arts and technology fellowship program at BuzzFeed News. The first draft began during a two-day event in June 2017, with about 20 people working in-person and remote.
Note
While the original version of this document was written for journalists and newsrooms, the concepts, tools, and related materials are also applicable in other domains. This fork of the original document has been customized for a different target audience, that of campaigns. This is primarily done through substituting the word “newsroom” with “campaign” throughout the document that was originally produced by OpenNews and BuzzFeed Open Lab.