Organ Grinder: Jeremy Dear: end casualisation in war reporting
November 28th, 2008
Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Freelance, Press freedom and ethics
Journalist Kate Peyton, who was killed in Somalia in 2005, was a victim of 'the creeping casualisation of the media workforce', argues the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Peyton agreed to work in Somalia to protect her contract with the BBC, says Dear.
"It casualisation makes people disposable and discourages dissent and caution. Staff near the end of their contracts feel they have to go to any lengths to prove their worth," he adds. Full story...
