CPJ’s Deputy Director Robert Mahoney’s blog “Journalists in danger” was published on The Guardian’s Comment is Free web site on January 21…
“Never travel without a wire coathanger.” For some reason that’s the one instruction that stayed in my head after a week’s training in how to survive as a reporter in a war zone. You fold the hanger so it fits in a shirt pocket and if ever you stray into a Balkan minefield, you have what it takes to scrape away topsoil and expose landmines so that you can slide out on your stomach.
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