Ashley Walters was the Online Editor for the Summer 2009 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Strung Along
Are local journalists and fixers in hot spots cut loose by our news media?
It is Graeme Smith’s 15th trip to Afghanistan. Though famous for his intrepid journalism, this time he’ll be spending more of his nights under a ceiling of impermeable cement. The Globe and Mail’s Afghanistan correspondent answers my e-mail from inside a concrete bunker. “We’re under rocket attacks again,” he writes. “Thank God for Wi-Fi.” But […]
