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Margaret Sullivan

When journalists are persecuted, we all suffer

Washington Post reporter Vivian Salama wears a cape reading ‘Free Evan’, referring to Evan Gershkovich, on the red carpet for the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC on 29 April.
Washington Post reporter Vivian Salama wears a cape reading ‘Free Evan’, referring to Evan Gershkovich, on the red carpet for the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC on 29 April. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters

Jodie Ginsberg remembers an important lesson from her decade as a Reuters foreign correspondent and bureau chief: there simply is no substitute for being at the scene.

“The first and most important source is what journalists see in front of them – their ability to give a firsthand, eyewitness account,” says Ginsberg, now the president of Committee to Protect Journalists, the non-profit advocacy organization based in New York City.

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