Rory Peck Impact - Heartwarming feedback from our global community. 🌏 In this latest RPT newsletter we're sharing highlights of our impact last year and testimonials from some of the #freelancers we've supported. 🔗 mailchi.mp/rorypecktrus...

Next week, Belarusian journalist Andrei Aliaksandrau spends yet another birthday behind bars. Show your solidarity with Andrei & all those unjustly imprisoned. Record yourself reciting Andrei’s poem and share it on socials on Tuesday 27 January 2026 with the hashtag #FreeAndrei. Poem in the thread ⬇️

In 2025, Rory Peck Trust provided direct assistance to more than 120 freelance journalists through our Crisis and Therapy Funds. Thank you to all our supporters, partners and donors 🙏 #community #freelancers #journalistsmatter

In 2025, Rory Peck Trust provided direct assistance to more than 120 #freelancers in our global community through our Crisis and Therapy Funds.🌍 Proudly sharing some of their feedback below.

🪧 Journalists covering protests: Do you need safety advice or emergency assistance? 🔴 Contact us at [email protected]. 🔴 Read more about safely covering protests 👇 cpj.org/resources-fo...

🛡️ Following the raid on the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson on Wednesday, here are concrete steps to take to safeguard yourself and your sources.

In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o... @polgreen.bsky.social

Almost 100 journalists have applied for these safety training courses, mostly from Syria. This number is a reflection of the great need for safety training and resources in the region.

Last night at the House of Lords, The Commonwealth Media Freedom Trust, presented RPT's Patron Lord Black with the Astor Award 2025, recognising his outstanding and longstanding commitment to media freedom in the UK and across the Commonwealth.

✨Rory Peck 2025 Highlights Crisis Fund beneficiary '' I’m pleased to share that the story which led to my troubles has now been shortlisted for an Award. I am truly grateful that you trusted and supported me through the hardest period of my life, your encouragement meant a great deal.”

Our Exec Director Jon Williams spoke with @indexoncensorship.org about a new monument to honour UK-based newsgatherers who lost their lives whilst reporting around the globe. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/01/on-t...

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights Over 50 newsroom runners took part in our News Teams Relay Race. ITV News swept the board winning fastest team and highest fundraisers. If you’d like to take part in the 2026 relay race event on Sunday 6th Sept, please email: [email protected] !🏃‍♀️

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights The individual who fundraised the most from a sporting challenge in 2025 is Semafor’s @prashantrao.bsky.social who ran the London Marathon this April and raised over £5,000 for RPT 🙌

⏰Last chance to apply! For the 8th consecutive year, Samir Kassir Foundation, in partnership with @rorypecktrust.bsky.social ACOS + @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social will offer FREE access to safety training courses in Lebanon. Deadline Jan 6th. Details here: www.skeyesmedia.org/en/News/News...

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights Our Director, opening the Rory Peck Awards said, the industry was “in a war for truth itself” and he urged colleagues to stand together: “Press freedom never collapses in one dramatic moment. It erodes — piece by piece —

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights Over 50 newsroom runners took part in our News Teams Relay Race. ITV News swept the board winning fastest team and highest fundraisers. If you’d like to take part in the 2026 relay race event on Sunday 6th Sept, please email: [email protected]. Be quick!🏃‍♀️

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights Our Director, opening the Rory Peck Awards said, the industry was “in a war for truth itself” and he urged colleagues to stand together: “Press freedom never collapses in one dramatic moment. It erodes — piece by piece —

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights The BBC’s Chief International correspondent, Lyse Doucet, presented the first Rory Peck Fellowship to the team from BBC Persian. She told of the harsassment both the service’s journalists in London had faced, as well as their families back home in Iran.

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights “My camera is not just a tool, it is a testimony” - Yasser Abu Wazna, 2025 #RoryPeckAwards News & Features winner. Watch his winning film here:

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights We delivered safety clinics at ARIJ in collaboration with our partners @arijnetwork.bsky.social. Our thanks to expert trainer @abeersaady for her physical safety and risk assessment guidance.

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights The indefatigable Bianca Jagger, Founder, President and CEO of The Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, attended the #RoryPeckAwards.

✨ Rory Peck 2025 Highlights. Quote from a Therapy Fund beneficiary, “I was going through a very difficult period after a challenging assignment, and the therapy sessions you arranged made an enormous difference. I genuinely don’t know how I would’ve got through it without your help."

🎄Journalists’ Carols tonight Dec 15 @ 6pm, St Bride’s Church, Fleet St, London. Readers include: Anne McElvoy at Politico EU, Clive Myrie at BBC, Steven Swinford at The Times & Katharine Viner at The Guardian. Drinks & mince pies to the follow service. In aid of @JournoCharity.

This Winter, Stand with the Journalists of Gaza. Beneficiary story: When an airstrike destroyed his house, office, and equipment, he lost not only his home but the equipment that allowed him to tell the stories that mattered most. 🔗https://app.givematch.com/fr/2VNZmPIM

You can watch the excellent BBC Firing Line on iplayer and go behind the scenes of our 2025 #RoryPeckAwards. 🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002n4hs/the-firing-line-2025 The Firing Line features the nominees and the winners and is presented by Anna Foster.

Catch the BBC's coverage of our Awards on The Firing Line. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our Director Jon Williams in conversation with Roger Bolton yesterday. You can listen in here 🔽 open.spotify.com/episode/26hk...

We are part of a wonderful journalist & media community. Our Exec Director Jon Williams here with Richard Moore of Media Insurance Brokers and Channel 4's @ayshahtull.bsky.social and Krishnan Guru-Murthy at the #RoryPeckAwards party.

We were SO pleased the winner of the Martin Adler Prize Ayman Abu Ramouz could join us to collect his Award from the Swedish Ambassador and to hear the rapturous applause. Ayman seen here with our Sony Impact winners 😍👏 Congratulations to them all and thank you to the Swedish Embassy in London.

What an incredible evening! Some highights from the 2025 #RoryPeckAwards The winners of the Sony Impact Award for Current Affairs, Karim Shah & Ramita Navai, pictured here with the Sony team.

✨Welcome to the 2025 Rory Peck Awards live from the @BFI in London.  Our presenter this year, Award-winning CNN journalist & anchor @chrissymacCNN @CNNPR Follow our livestream at: rorypecktrust.org/awards

The 2025 #RoryPeckAwards is now sold out! Please join our livestream tonight at 7.30pm GMT 🤩

Tomorrow evening we'll host the 31st #RoryPeckAwards 🏆 We have a record number of news and media industry guests attending to honour the work of freelance journalists worldwide.

📹On @channel4 catch up now, go behind the scenes with our Finalist Wil Davies, nominated for his work, Crisis in Sudan: The Fight for Survival, Unreported World. www.channel4.com/programmes/r...

Exciting announcement ... Award-winning CNN journalist & anchor Christina Macfarlane will now be hosting our flagship event this Wednesday evening. Join our livestream as Christina reveals the winners of the 2025 #RoryPeckAwards 🏆🏆🏆

🏆Just 2 days until the winners are announced ! You can join the livestream from our website, 7.30pm GMT on Wednesday 26th Nov. 👀

looking forward to the #Rorypeckawards this week!

If you missed it last night, here's the Channel 4 short which goes behind the scenes with #RoryPeckAwards finalist james Jones talking about his extraordinary & chilling film Antidote. www.channel4.com/programmes/r...

Tonight on Channel 4 at 7.55pm (gmt) go behind the scenes with @jamesjones.bsky.social shortlisted for our #RoryPeckAwards Sony Impact for Current Affairs Award!

A big month for ANTIDOTE and director @jamesjones.bsky.social 💪! A @bifa-film.bsky.social nomination for Best Feature Doc, a @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social nomination for Production, and James named as a @rorypecktrust.bsky.social finalist. All testament to the strength of this film!

Monday Nov 24th 7.55 pm, 📹Wil Davies - ‘Crisis In Sudan: The Fight for Survival’ Tuesday Nov 25th 7.55 pm, 📹Zaher Saleh – ‘The Anatomy of an Airstrike’

Don't miss the #RoryPeckAwards Finalists featuring on @Channel4 over the coming week. 7.55pm straight after the news. Thursday Nov 20th 7.55 pm 📹James Jones – ‘Antidote’ @jamesjones.bsky.social Friday Nov 21st 7.55 pm, 📹Ramita Navai – ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’

Don't miss the #RoryPeckAwards Finalists featuring on @Channel4 over the coming week. 7.55pm straight after the news. Thursday Nov 20th 7.55 pm 📹James Jones – ‘Antidote’ @jamesjones.bsky.social Friday Nov 21st 7.55 pm, 📹Ramita Navai – ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’

A truly inspiring event with the BBC World Service Global Women yesterday which provides news and services in a staggering 43 languages! Some of the BBC's best Kirsty Wark, Nawal Al-Maghafi, Marianna Spring reminded us of the important voice, reach and impact of BBC news right across the 🌍.

🏆 Join us, & the great and the good from the news & media industry on Nov 26 @BFI Southbank when we celebrate the finalists + announce the winners of the 2025 #RoryPeckAwards. Hosted by Isa Soares CNN. Tickets🔗 buff.ly/pedyTxo Show your support for our finalists & freelance journalists globally.

An important panel discussion last night to discuss the vital work of @unhcr.org the UN refugee agency and what's needed moving forward, chaired by our Director and UK UNHCR Trustee Jon Williams.

📣Spotlight on Sony Impact Award Finalist @jamesjonesfilm, for his film ANTIDOTE, Commissioned by Channel 4. Watch it here rorypecktrust.org/awards/final...

We invited Manchester + Glasgow #freelancers to public order training workshops. @antonialangford.bsky.social from Manchester who's worked in Ukraine & covered protests in Georgia said, "This training session was really useful to get the sense of how to minimise dangers in hostile environments."

An inspiring event celebrating freelance journalists and filmmakers 🎥 👏 Congrats to the finalists and winners - looking forward to diving in! Book now: lnkd.in/ed8VPFRK

A fantastic way to support freelance journalists globally. Students and freelancers get 50% discounted tickets too!