Blog: Freelance journalists risk lives and livelihoods amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Jonathan R,
April 23, 2020 in Updates from the CPJ and other media freedom groups

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Posted April 23, 2020

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Posted April 23, 2020

AFP photographer Diptendu Dutta works during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19 in Siliguri, India, on April 10, 2020. Freelance journalists have faced risks to their lives and livelihoods amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AFP)

Johannesburg-based freelance journalist Yeshiel Panchia was on his way to cover a story about a local developer who had found a way to keep his wage laborers employed during South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown by letting them live on the construction site so that they didn’t have to leave “home” in contravention of strict rules.

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