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War Correspondent - Anthony Loyd

War Correspondent - Anthony Loyd

Is the fear factor forcing journalists to retreat from the frontline?

The Interview · BBC World Service

June 30, 201423m 23s

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Show Notes

More than 60 journalists have been killed in Syria's civil war. Across the world journalists have become targets as never before, murdered, kidnapped and, in the case of three Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt, locked up by the state for doing their jobs. Hardtalk speaks to Anthony Loyd, the award winning war correspondent of The Times newspaper, who was shot and seriously injured in Syria last month. Is the fear factor forcing journalists to retreat from the frontline?

(Photo: Anthony Loyd - war correspondent, The Times newspaper)