{"id":71997,"date":"2025-05-27T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/27\/they-told-me-that-theyd-hunt-me-down-journalists-on-how-they-survive-working-in-war-zones"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:00:50","slug":"they-told-me-that-theyd-hunt-me-down-journalists-on-how-they-survive-working-in-war-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71997","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They told me that they\u2019d hunt me down\u2019: journalists on how they survive working in war zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/may\/03\/world-press-freedom-day-war-on-journalists-dangers\">record number of journalists killed<\/a> over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/ng-interactive\/2025\/may\/04\/they-threatened-to-bulldoze-my-house-fear-and-violence-stalk-journalists-in-modi-india\">\u2018They threatened to bulldoze my house\u2019: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi\u2019s India<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen*, 39, is a journalist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The war between the DRC\u2019s army and the military faction known as M23 is <\/strong><strong>one<\/strong><strong> of<\/strong><strong> Africa\u2019s longest conflicts [a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/24\/drc-government-and-m23-make-surprise-truce-to-end-fighting-in-east-of-country\">potential truce was announced last month<\/a>]. The escalation of violence has meant Stephen now forgoes bylines <\/strong><strong>and a presence on social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/27\/they-told-me-that-theyd-hunt-me-down-journalists-on-how-they-survive-working-in-war-zones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death\u2022 \u2018They threatened to bulldoze my house\u2019: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi\u2019s IndiaStephen*, 39, is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,246,87,1052,59,669,238,1405,212,82,672,54,61,404,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-conflict-and-arms","category-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","category-global-development","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-mexico","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-myanmar","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sudan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71998,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997\/revisions\/71998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}