<![CDATA[Background: Workplace safety in the field of journalism poses a challenge in practice; as cases of violence and other workplace accidents continue to occur, indicating that journalism is a high-risk profession for its workers. Although the Indonesian Television Journalists Association (IJTI), in collaboration with the International Labor Organization (ILO), has developed and provided occupational safety and health (OSH) guidelines for television journalists, workplace accidents involving journalists still occur. Purpose: This study aims to analyze the implementation of the IJTI Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Guidelines in high-risk reporting and to explain the relationship between organizational structure and journalists’ actions in shaping safety practices. Methods: This study employs a qualitative approach through a case study of the violence against Kompas TV journalists while covering the Aceh disaster relief center in December 2025. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, non-participant observation, and document analysis, and were then analyzed using the Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña interactive model, with interpretations grounded in Anthony Giddens’s Theory of Structuration. Results: The study found that the implementation of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Guidelines did not occur as a process of compliance with procedures, but rather as a practice that is continuously negotiated through the interaction between organizational rules, newsroom culture, journalists’ reflective capacity, and the dynamics of reporting. This study produced the concept of “Safety negotiation,” which consists of five dimensions: risk negotiation, editorial negotiation, operational negotiation, external negotiation, and professional negotiation. Conclusion: This study concludes that journalist safety is an ongoing process of negotiation shaped by organizational structures, the reflective actions of journalists, and field dynamics rather than merely a matter of adherence to formal procedures. Implications: These findings underscore the need for media organizations to strengthen adaptive safety governance through open communication, cross-functional coordination, and continuous evaluation of high-risk reporting.]]>
