Journalism under Fire is a program of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations (CIR). The conference was launched in 2018 in Santa Fe, New Mexico as an in-person event and held again in 2019 -- when it welcomed over 1,600 attendees, including over 400 students and 65 international journalists over three days. The conference was moved to the virtual realm over four weeks in 2020 due to global travel restrictions related to the Coronavirus pandemic.