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Freitag, Mai 03, 2019

Storyhunter Special: World Press Freedom Day Interview with Laura Ling




 San Francisco.
This year, in honor of World Press Freedom Day, Storyhunter’s Founder and CEO, Jaron Gilinsky, sat down to interview a journalist who had a profound influence on his own career, Laura Ling. Laura led the vanguard journalism unit at Current TV, the network where Jaron got his start as a video journalist. Laura helped Jaron to produce videos from many of the world’s most repressive regimes. In 2009, while in the field herself, working on a story about the trafficking of women between North Korea and China, Laura was captured and held captive by the North Korean government, along with Euna Lee. Thankfully, Laura and Euna were released after five harrowing months. Today, Laura is Head of Content at the new live news network, Happs.  [more...]