Burma's River of News.
The monthly news magazine The Irrawaddy uses an underground network of contacts and informers to penetrate the hermetically sealed country of Burma. Burma seldom grants visas to Western journalists, and foreign media within Burma can only recruit local journalists—who are subject to intimidation—so...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Policy no. 154; pp. 86 - 89 |
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Foreign Policy
May/June 2006
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