Is It More Dangerous than Ever to Be a Female War Reporter?

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In an interview with the Atlantic, author and former Reuters correspondent Anne Sebba makes several points about women war reporters that current female conflict journalists find insulting. Sebba, who is the author of a history of women reporters called B

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Sebba, who is the author of a history of women reporters called Battling for News, told the Atlantic’s Emily Chertoff: ”A lot of these conflicts are now in Muslim countries, who see Western women wearing provocative—that’s their word, not mine—provocative clothes, and therefore, they feel, the West has to be taught a lesson, that they’re fair targets, fair game.”