Lechosa LLC

Lechosa LLC can provide security, training and consultancy services to media organizations to help them protect their newsrooms from physical, information security and emotional threats. Consultant Mike Christie spent a decade designing, building, and running an industry-leading editorial safety framework at Reuters, the world's largest international news agency, and can help you do the same at your news organization. We can: * Help you draw up an Editorial Safety policy that makes clear your commitments to your journalists with regard to safety and what you expect from them. * Help you and your newsroom embrace an integrated approach to physical, information security and emotional threats. * Help you create an extensive library of editorial safety guidance, and/or editorial safety protocols for the threats your journalists face. * Help you build a risk assessment process that won't get in the way of the news. * Help you establish a safety training plan that will give your journalists the skills and knowledge they need. * Advise you on measures to manage both information security for journalists and the emotional preparedness and resilience of your newsroom. * Design and run hostile environment training courses ranging from advanced training for war zones, and basic courses on information security, to specialized courses on acutely dangerous situations like wildfires or a nuclear accident. * Provide guidance on getting real-time security advice for dangerous breaking news situations; incident management; and security audits or reviews so you can learn. These are tough times for the news media, but journalists and their dogged inquisitiveness and creativity are our most precious assets and need to be protected in a world of evolving threats. Lechosa LLC aims to provide consulting and security and safety training services to news organizations at price points that are accessible for small newsrooms and freelance journalists, not just large companies.