Posted on Sep 27, 2022
Journalists are being trained to gather evidence of war crimes — starting in Ukraine
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."On toeing the line between journalism and activism
If you're asking a journalistic ethics committee, I'm sure they'd have a different answer. But personally, from my own career, I don't consider myself an activist. I consider myself a human rights defender.
It's what I've always done. From my very first assignment, my mentor was an Israeli lawyer, and she said to me a line that changed my life forever: If you have the ability to go to these places and report on it and bring back the truth, then you have a responsibility. I took that to heart."
..."On toeing the line between journalism and activism
If you're asking a journalistic ethics committee, I'm sure they'd have a different answer. But personally, from my own career, I don't consider myself an activist. I consider myself a human rights defender.
It's what I've always done. From my very first assignment, my mentor was an Israeli lawyer, and she said to me a line that changed my life forever: If you have the ability to go to these places and report on it and bring back the truth, then you have a responsibility. I took that to heart."
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