Commentary: With nearly 70 journalists killed, who will be left to cover the Gaza war?
In 2009, I covered the Gaza war known as Operation Cast Lead. International journalists, including myself, assembled in tents at El Arish crossing, on the Egyptian-Palestinian border, hoping to directly cover the news in the Gaza Strip. This was before social media empowered Gazans to broadcast live from their phones to ours. Yet it is important to remember that we can’t equate professional journalism and social media.
Journalists cover the news, but today journalists the news. In this current conflict journalists have been killed in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel. The Committee to Protect Journalists and media workers have
