On Thanksgiving Day 2012, American freelance reporter James Foley vanished. Unidentified men wielding AK-47s pulled him from a car in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib, where government and rebel forces had been clashing, and drove away. Many news reports and a family appeal for [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Welcome to the world of freelancing… It was always tough, now it’s tougher. Editors used to answer your mail occasionally, you’d bandy about stories and develop a relationship… But even ITT doesn’t give a thought about that. I tried for years to get stories on ITT, but couldn’t even get an answer, and I have been freelancing since before some of you were born.
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