Strangling dissent

• Autores: Elizabeth Spayd
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 53, Nº. 1, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians took to Twitter and Facebook in a swell of rage that would ultimately topple an authoritarian government. Social media, this narrative went, would soon go on to reorder the Middle East. The world's dictators may have been slow to adapt to new technology but they've now leapfrogged those who would like to undo them. The efforts at media suppression come at an especially grim moment for international reporting. Here, Spayd reveals that the steady decline of foreign bureaus around the world has contributed to a volatile and dangerous climate in the field of international reporting. Seasoned and well-funded journalists are being supplanted by less-experienced and faintly resourced freelancers.