A team of three investigative reporters from Russia were murdered in cold blood while on an assignment in the Central African Republic, a country in equatorial Africa locked in perpetual conflict.
These journalists were murdered in cold blood for doing their job. They were on an assignment and weren't even given the liberty of peace.
It’s also clearly a precarious, ultimately untenable arrangement that needs to be reviewed as soon as possible — before more of our colleagues die on the job without the necessary local knowledge, infrastructure or ethical support.
We need to begin to protect our journalist so that they can in turn protect us. If there is low chance of survival, no one will be interested in entering a career that won't even pay you enough money to afford a lifestyle.
Which is why freelance war reporting is an almost extinct profession these days. It barely pays the reporters’ expenses, while exposing them to literally mortal risks.
Proving journalism is a literal "killer" career. War reporting is something that could provide important news to the public but isn't even an existing profession because no one would be willing to die, not have money for their family, and not even be given the time of die even after you've given up the only life you have.
media often have to travel to far-off parts of the world with little or no amenities or infrastructure, with expensive equipment in tow.
It is truly sad to know that people are trying to point blame at each other over the death of people. It's almost as though the people were only mere puppets played in a game of Life.
In effect, this is a battle of two extremely powerful and rich people in which reporters struggling in a precarious job market are the collateral — now in a tragically literal sense.
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the man with a vested interest in their mission had failed to provide them with security, which he, once one of the richest men in Russia and the world, could definitely afford.
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it’s becoming increasingly clear that reporters were sent on a foolhardy mission to one of the most dangerous areas of the world with haphazard preparation and little, if any, involvement of regional experts.
These people are risking their lives and their higher-ups send them to their deaths as though they're cattle. Oftentimes keeping a job in journalism means risking your life to make your boss happy and in the end, you may not even come back home alive.
An exiled oligarch who now lives in London after serving 10 years in a Siberian penal colony, Khodorkovsky funds an array of media projects, from straight news and investigative journalism to political satire on social media.
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t this time, all we know is the team was dispatched to one of the most dangerous places on Earth to investigate a mysterious private military company allegedly sponsored by Evgeny Prigozhin, a fabulously wealthy man with close, albeit never publicized, links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Journalists are risking their lives to get stories that truly mean something and this is a marvelous example. These reporters were sent the one the most dangerous places and then shot at point-blank solely because they wanted to investigate a military company to provide answers to the general public.
all of whom were shot point-blank
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