Julian Borger, The Guardian -
| In my career, I have lost colleagues to wars in the Balkans, west
Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq, and I’ve seen the grave risks reporters
take to bring us the news, but the most dangerous time to be a
journalist in the modern era is right now.
Over
the course of 2024, 124 reporters and other media workers were killed,
the worst toll since the Committee to Protect Journalists started
keeping records three decades ago. About 70% of that total were killed
by the Israeli military, and 82 of them were Palestinian journalists
killed in Gaza...
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And then there’s the US, where I was based for eight years until last
July. This month I returned to Washington, and found it a changed city
under the second Trump presidency.
I
was careful to edit what was visible on my phone before going through
US immigration, and there was a prevailing climate of fear among
journalist friends and colleagues, with some insisting on encrypted
communication and uncharacteristic discretion.
Those
working for big media organisations are now in constant fear that their
owners will fall into line and insist on self-censorship, and the
firing of journalists viewed by the administration as troublemakers. ...
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