Our newlook website is now launched. I hope you find it useful and easy to use.

First and foremost, it aims to help all journalists and support staff work more safely in hostile environments, in war or other conflict, at home and abroad.

More than 1,200 friends and colleagues in the news media have been killed in the course of their work around the world in the past 10 years. A frightening 22 have died only in the first couple of months of this year. The Iraq conflict is proving the worst ever for our profession with 31 killed and two missing, believed dead.

INSI was set up in last year by news organisations and journalist support groups determined to staunch this bloodshed.

This website - www.newssafety.com - is key to that effort.

It contains news and feature articles related to safety, health and training. It has advisories from trouble spots. It contains links to other helpful websites. It will be updated constantly as we go along. We will introduce translation to other major languages as soon as we are able.

However, we need your participation to maximise the site's usefulness.

We need you to tell us what is missing and what we must include. We seek your comments, critical or otherwise, on the news items and articles, as well as useful additions. We would like to hear your views on safety training and other critical issues.

Above all, we urge you to contact us as soon as you are able if you have safety information to share with colleagues in the same area or planning to visit. We will post the information on the site immediately for the benefit of all.

www.newssafety.com is for all journalists anywhere who are or one day may be in danger. It is YOUR resource -- please use it.

If the information we share here helps save just one life, it will be worthwhile.

Many thanks -- and go safely,

Rodney Pinder, Director

ŠINSI 2004