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5: Do no harm also applies to journalism – Thin Lei Win, humanitarian correspondent
Storytelling for Impact
English - May 21, 2021 07:45 - 55 minutes - 25.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGovernment News News Commentary Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This episode features Thin Lei Win, an award-winning Burmese climate change, food security and humanitarian correspondent living in Italy. We discuss whether the foreign correspondent model is due a reckoning following a recent reporting trip by CNN International to Myanmar to cover the country’s recent military coup. The media outlet was widely criticised for the trip, with many accusing it of downplaying the role played by local journalists and for causing harm as 11 local sources were arrested after speaking to CNN’s reporter.