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McClatchy’s Syria Bureau Chief David Enders writes about being abducted:

I was recently abducted by a group of rebels in northern Syria. I was strip-searched and held, handcuffed and blindfolded, for six hours along with three Syrian men before we were let go. Our captors suspected me — an American journalist — of being a spy.

That is the price — and much worse — that any journalist working in Syria today must be prepared to pay. …

I had been preparing myself for years to be kidnapped, and though it was unpleasant, it went much better than I had expected.

David Enders, McClatchy

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British news organizations spurn freelance reporting from Syria

Press-Gazette | Committee to Protect Journalists | WAN-IFRA
The Guardian and other U.K. newspapers say that under most circumstances they won't take freelance reporting from Syria, William Turvill writes. Gavin Rodgers reported earlier this month that the British Sunday Times doesn't use freelance work from Syria because it does not "wish to encourage freelancers to take exceptional risks."

Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin died in Syria last February. McClatchy and Washington Post freelancer Austin Tice, last seen in Syria, has been missing since August. Syria is the world's most dangerous place for journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists says. (more...)
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