UJean-Marc Mojon, global head of news safety for Agence France-Presse, spoke to the AAPA on October 7 — two years to the day after Hamas attacked Israel, unleashing cataclysmic consequences for both sides. He discussed the agency’s unprecedented challenges in the face of the total exclusion of foreign media from Gaza. Reporters hired locally, apart from risking their lives with more than 200 colleagues killed in the past two years, face constant efforts by Israel to smear them as Hamas operatives. In Ukraine, drone warfare has created a multi-directional “kill zone”, rewriting the safety manual for journalists. On a positive note, Mojon said journalists’ attitudes towards mental health are improving steadily. “I grew up with a generation that tended to fix field reporting-related mental health issues with a bottle of whisky. That is gradually being phased out.”