Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has announced that she is stepping down from her position as a stringer at Reuters news agency after eight years, saying that she can no longer be associated with an agency that is “justifying and enabling” the systematic killing of journalists in Gaza.
Zink, whose work has appeared in the American daily newspaper New York Times, Qatar-based Al Jazeera television news network, and various outlets throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, said on her personal Facebook page that Reuters' reporting has played a role in the circumstances leading to the deaths of 246 journalists since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in early October 2023.
She referenced the case of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, who was killed alongside several other colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City on August 10.
“Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that al-Sharif was a Hamas operative – one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified,” Zink wrote.
She also took a swipe at Reuters' reaction to the murder of its own employees. (more...)
Reuters culpable in Israel's assassination of 246 Gaza journalists, says Canadian reporter
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