Today, anyone with an i Phone can provide firsthand accounts from the world’s front lines. Despite our increased access to events around the world, journalists are more vital than ever as they bring context and perspective and help to set the humanitarian agenda. However, threats to journalists are mounting with record numbers killed and imprisoned each year. From the drug wars of Mexico to Iraq and Tahrir Square, Joel Simon explores the new challenges and dangers to the future of journalistic freedom.
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Introduction
Informing the Global Citizen
Notes
Over de auteur
Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and has written widely on media issues. He is a regular contributor to
Slate and the
Columbia Journalism Review, and his articles and commentary have appeared in the
New York Review of Books, the
New York Times,
World Policy Journal, and other publications. He is also the author of
Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge and lives in Brooklyn with his family.
