Reporters at risk

The Reporters at Risk event series features the stories of journalists, editors, and other correspondents who have been on the leading edge of journalism around the world and conveys the stakes and sacrifices that they undertake to deliver the news. Often stationed on the front lines of crisis and conflict, correspondents face physical, psychological, and political threats across assignments and over the course of their careers, including harassment, violence, imprisonment, and more.

In 2023 and 2024, the Reporters at Risk series raised awareness for the plight of Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich and mobilized support for his release from Russian detention. Today, the series continues to advocate for a free press and the protection of dedicated journalists working across the globe. 

Public Event Fri, February 27, 2026 • 1:00 pm ET

Reporters at risk: Navigating Iran’s internet blackout

Experts discuss how correspondents within and outside Iran dispersed information despite government repression.

Iran Middle East Resilience Resilience & Society

Public Event Tue, November 18, 2025 • 10:00 am ET

Reporters at risk: Reflections on the Bosnian War, thirty years on

Frontline reporters reflect on the thirtieth anniversary of the Dayton Accords and the end of the war in Bosnia.

Resilience Resilience & Society The Balkans

Public Event Wed, May 28, 2025 • 3:30 pm ET

Reporters at risk: How editors balance covering war with protecting journalists

Leading journalists and editors discuss the risks and challenges they face and how they work together to protect resilience during crisis and beyond.

Civil Society Resilience Resilience & Society

Public Event Wed, June 26, 2024 • 8:00 am ET

Reporters at risk: Latin America and the Caribbean

Leading journalists discuss the challenges and dangers involved in covering Latin America and the Caribbean.

Americas Caribbean Civil Society Conflict

Public Event Thu, March 14, 2024 • 2:00 am ET

Reporters at risk: On the frontlines in Ukraine and Gaza

Leading journalists discuss covering the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Civil Society Conflict Europe & Eurasia Middle East

Public Event Tue, November 7, 2023 • 12:30 am ET

Reporters at risk: In honor of Evan Gershkovich

Leading journalists discuss risks facing foreign correspondents, resilience in reporting, and global press freedom.

Civil Society Politics & Diplomacy Resilience Resilience & Society

Thu, December 11, 2025

Bosnia’s forgotten war is still with us

Fewer than fifty years after the end of World War II, genocide returned to Europe in Bosnia. The carnage ended on December 14, 1995, with the signing of the US-brokered Dayton Accords. Thirty years on, have the war’s lessons—for Europe; for diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, and more—been heeded?

Sat, September 21, 2024

How the Atlantic Council contributed to Evan Gershkovich’s release

An encounter at the Global Citizen Awards played a modest but vital role in the exchange that released the Wall Street Journal reporter who was imprisoned in Russia.

Thu, August 1, 2024

Welcome home, Evan

We at the Atlantic Council are overjoyed and relieved that Evan has been released after 491 days of wrongful imprisonment in Russia, writes Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe.

New Atlanticist Aug 1, 2024

Experts react: What to know about the release of Evan Gershkovich and others held by Russia

By Atlantic Council experts

A prisoner swap has freed American journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, former US Marine Paul Whelan, and Russian political dissidents Vladimir Kara-Murza and llya Yashin, among others.

Human Rights Media

UkraineAlert Jul 23, 2024

Putin accused of jailing US journalists as ‘bargaining chips’ for prisoner swap

By Mercedes Sapuppo

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has been accused of using American journalists as bargaining chips after jailing US reporters Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva on dubious charges ahead of a possible prisoner swap, writes Mercedes Sapuppo.

Conflict Freedom and Prosperity

New Atlanticist Mar 29, 2024

A year in detention: Russia must release Evan Gershkovich

By Mercedes Sapuppo

Gershkovich embodies what Putin apparently fears: He is a journalist working to uncover the truth, to show the world for what it really is.

Media Politics & Diplomacy

The Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative, in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, works to advance resilience as a core tenet of US and allied national security policy and practice.

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