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Ruth Sherlock
Ruth Sherlock is foreign correspondent of the UK daily The Daily Telegraph and has covered the Arab Spring from Egypt, Libya and Syria. She was awarded Young Journalist of the Year at the 2012 British Press Awards. The judges praised her "astonishing collection of work" during the Arab Spring, saying she had demonstrated "skill as well as courage" to produce a series of "harrowing" accounts. After living in Libya with rebel fighters, covering the whole war from the nascent revolution in Benghazi to the final capture of Col. Muammer Gaddafi, Ruth moved to report on Syria. She has made several trips into the country, both undercover in government-held areas and being smuggled into the country with rebel fighters.
What should information professionals do when activists replace journalists in the production of news? The dramatic conflict in Syria is a war fought on two fronts: military and media. The difficult...
An average of two journalists are killed every week carrying out their work. Most are local journalists investigating crime and corruption and their killers are seldom found. Ten years ago the news ...