Ruth Michaelson

Ruth Michaelson
Ruth Michaelson is a correspondent for Radio France International and freelance journalist based in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in a variety of outlets from Le Monde Diplomatique to Vice. She is currently based in Cairo as part of the Global Post GroundTruth Project.
An interview with one of Gaza’s banned journalists

An interview with one of Gaza’s banned journalists

On 25 December 2012, Gaza’s Hamas government announced a ban on Palestinian journalists working with Israeli media.  This decision affected just three journalists in Gaza, one of whom is 25-year-old Abeer Ayyoub. Abeer went from working as a fixer for visiting foreign journalists to writing stories herself, and in the process landing a job with Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. Starting at the beginning of the last attack on Gaza in November 2012, she quickly made a name for herself by breaking stories that most journalists operating in the Strip had never realised existed. I spoke to Abeer about what the ban means for her work, and for the state of press freedom in Gaza today Ruth Michaelson: When we spoke the […]

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