III. Methodology Employing qualitative methods, our research primarily focuses on interviews, complemented by two Focus Group Discussion (FGDs). We interviewed ten journalists and five digital security trainers in the course of the research, and involved a mix of digital security trainers, journalists, and media support officers in the FGDs. The first FGD convened six digital security trainers in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 24 May 2023, as part of EngageMedia’s Digital Rights in the Asia-Pacific public engagement event. Except for one based in Thailand, the trainers who participated are based in Myanmar, gathered from the networks of the Myanmar Internet Project with whom EngageMedia worked previously. This FGD, intended to explore trainers’ assumptions and see whether there is a contrast to the on-the-ground experiences of journalists, informed our research direction, including informant selection and thematic focus. The second FGD, conducted online on 1 November 2023 with four participants, included digital security trainers, a journalist, and a media support officer. This served as a follow-up to the initial FGD. We also interviewed digital security trainers and a media support officer separately, from October to November 2023. We interviewed eight professional journalists (affiliated with media companies) and two citizen journalists from a variety of backgrounds and in different professional and geographical settings. Seven out of ten journalists interviewed are based in Myanmar. The semi-structured interviews were conducted in-person and online using Zoom from July to November 2023 and aimed to explore journalists’ experiences and perceptions of security situations in Myanmar. We started with higher-risk journalists who are currently reporting from within Myanmar and have travelled to conflict areas such as Sagaing and Karenni for news reporting, and snowballed from there. These interviews specifically aimed to examine their experiences from the coup in February 2021 up to the time the interviews were conducted. It is important to note that the situation may have changed after this timeline. 17