A fantastic story by @tomlasseter about the life & work of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two journalists who are facing prison in Myanmar after they exposed a massacre. It also includes the detail that Wa Lone made the equivalent of $1000 a month at Reuters. reuters.com/article/us-mya…
Wa Lone & his wife pawned their wedding rings so they could travel for stories, including to Rakhine State, bc Reuters was often slow to reimburse their expenses. Reuters: “We were not aware of this personal sacrifice & it is not something we would ever ask or expect of staff.”
This stuck out to me because it's a telling representation of the immense risk the local colleagues of foreign journalists take on in many parts of the world, often for significantly lower pay. That risk is only growing as journalists are increasingly demonized and targeted.
