‘Ben je gekidnapt in Syrië? Kan je dat even twitteren?’

“He finally wrote to me. After more than a year of freelancing for him, during which I contracted typhoid fever and was shot in the knee, my editor watched the news, thought I was among the Italian journalists who’d been kidnapped, and sent me an email that said: “Should you get a connection, could you tweet your detention?”

– Francesca Borri.

Het verhaal van Francesca Borri laat weer eens zien hoe schrijnend de situatie van freelance journalisten kan zijn in Syrië. Bij Columbia Journalism Review beschrijft de Italiaanse journaliste hoe harteloos en zonder besef van realiteit haar opdrachtgevers haar behandelen.

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