Covering Syria, ‘All of Us Find Ourselves Taking on the Trauma’ – The New York Times

Covering Syria, ‘All of Us Find Ourselves Taking on the Trauma’

Anne Barnard, The Times’s Beirut bureau chief, and Hwaida Saad, a bureau reporter and news assistant, answered readers’ questions about Syria on Reddit.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/world/middleeast/how-times-journalists-cover-the-war-in-syria.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

What misconceptions do you see in the West about the war in Syria? How has the way you gather information on the conflict changed? Has it become more dangerous for journalists to report on the war?

These were among the more than 100 questions that readers asked Anne Barnard, the Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times, and Hwaida Saad, a reporter and news assistant in the bureau, during a live Reddit conversation on Tuesday.