The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on freelancers, Edward Snowden and the Arab Spring
Jon Lee Anderson is one of the world’s leading war correspondents. Currently working for The New Yorker, he has covered conflicts in Syria, Libya and Ireland over the course of his 30-year career. Anderson recently delivered an address to the School of Journalism at Paris’ Sciences Po university, in which he tackled issues ranging from the risks of freelance conflict reporting, to the murder of his friend James Foley, the perils of social media, and the role of Edward Snowden: “[He] is a spy, he’s not a journalist”.