What Next - In Gaza, Journalism Is a Death Sentence
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, Al-Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza City were killed by an airstrike. Almost immediately, Israel said it targeted one of them on purpose – Anas al-Sharif. The strike fits a pattern, growing both in Israel and across the world, of targeting journalists—and holding no one accountable afterwards.
Guest: Jodie Ginsberg, head of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization promoting press freedom worldwide.
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| 1:05.0 | When Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 2018, I was a new journalist. I'd just been hired to my |
| 1:14.1 | first staff job at a daily news show over at New York Public Radio. Koshoggi was a Saudi |
| 1:20.0 | dissident living in Turkey and working as a journalist for the Washington Post when he was |
| 1:25.2 | brutally murdered and dismembered by agents of the crown prince. |
| 1:30.5 | This practice, this conduct, whether it's by Saudi Arabia or anyone else, is totally unacceptable. |
| 1:38.6 | What I remember from that time was the solidarity. Everyone seemed outraged, ready to rally around the cause, politicians, |
| 1:47.5 | human rights activists, and of course, journalists. At the time of his death in Istanbul, |
| 1:55.0 | he was a part of our community, and we feel his loss even today as a blow, a loss, a tragedy, and a horrible crime that has no justice. |
| 2:05.8 | The coverage of his death was sustained. |
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