Divided we fall

• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 52, Nº. 3, 2013, págs. 4-5
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The devaluation of journalism is about more than just the corrosive write-for-free ethos that took hold over the last decade, as the business model broke down. Journalism lost its virtual monopoly as the arbiter of the public conversation, and with it a bit of its swagger. Freelancers have always had to deal with indifferent or abusive editors, and hustle to make even a modest living. But there are more freelancers today, and they are relied upon to cover more important stories--especially in far-flung hotspots like Syria--as the big media outlets have dramatically reduced their ambitions generally, and on foreign coverage specifically. Here, details regarding Francesca Borri who wrote a powerful essay about the plight of being a freelancer, and a woman, covering the Syrian civil war for Italian media are discussed.