New technology and media-activism are profoundly changing the job of war correspondents: no longer sole witnesses to events, able however to work in real time.
Theo Padnos
Theo Padnos is an American freelance journalist who was held hostage for almost two years in Syria before being released in August 2014. He published a detailed account of his captivity in The New York Times Magazine on 29 October 2014.
He holds a degree from Middlebury College and a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of My Life Has Stood a Loaded Gun (2004) and Undercover Muslim: A Journey into Yemen (2011).