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    When the Press Fails


    Aperture Priorities Contact Sheet #10

    Joel Schalit / 12 Feb 2024

    I’m not a defence correspondent. But for six years, I edited military reporting for Israeli media.

    Erasing the graffiti. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels.

    The work came naturally. Like many journalists from Israeli families, I had enough personal experience to start the job.

    The rest was learned through work. Not that there was much to figure out except the editorial requirements.

    The final two years, reviewing articles on rising clashes in the West Bank, it was clear something bigger was on the way.

    Not one of the IDF’s periodic campaigns in Gaza but a proper war along the lines of the first Lebanon conflict in 1982.

    Continue reading in this week’s newsletter.

    Photograph courtesy of Joel Schalit. All rights reserved.

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