Video: Risk, reward, and loss in Syria

Syrian leaders tried to impose a media blackout on the country’s civil war. They failed. As CPJ’s Dahlia El-Zein reports, foreign journalists responded by smuggling themselves into the country, while Syrians picked up cameras and uploaded videos online. They all did so at extreme risk. (4:13)

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