Can the advanced technology save journalist from risks?
Judith Matloff: I think it can. But I think it also makes our jobs more dangerous in some respects. There are ways, for instance, that you can post things on a Facebook page or internet so that your identity is blocked, and journalists are doing that in parts of the world, particularly Russia and Iran. That is being used. But on the other hand, electronic surveillance is something that we need to be very, very worried about. And I think there’s another danger of technology which is that in the old days — in the old days, meaning the 80s or the 90s when I first started covering Africa… Let’s say if I wrote for a U.S. paper, I would write something and it would be published in Boston, and pretty much only people in that area would read that article. So you didn’t worry much about endangering someone in Sudan, because nobody in Sudan read your article. Now this changed with the internet. Anybody, anywhere can read your stories, and that is a danger of the electronic media. But on the oth
