Journalist's arrest threatens reporting from Russia
News organizations that report from Russia are wondering about the risks after a Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested on espionage charges there
NEW YORK (AP) — The Journal-reported-russia-arrested-cd511a94a3fe0ce604df6648ef5adec5">arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second Time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great.
“Russia is sending the message that journalism within your borders is criminalized and that foreign correspondents seeking to report from Russia do not enjoy the benefits of the rule of law,” they said.
A reporter for The New York Times who was temporarily in Moscow, Valerie Hopkins, left after Gershkovich's arrest, the newspaper said.
Gershkovich's arrest comes a year after the Russian government, shortly after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, imposed harsh new restrictions on journalists that threatened punishment for reports that went against the Kremlin's version of events — even forbidding the use of the word “war” to describe the conflict.
