War reporters like me will cease to exist if the web giants aren’t stopped | Sammy Ketz

News journalism is being sucked dry by Facebook and Google – the EU must pass a crucial reform on copyright law

I was in Mosul, the Islamic State group’s former capital in northern Iraq, on a reporting assignment about children returning to a school that had been shut down for three years by jihadists. I was thinking of how best to describe the joy of those children as they returned to their long-forbidden desks in that ruined city.

Sitting at a restaurant with the photographer, video journalist and driver before heading back to Baghdad, I read an article on my laptop about the EU debate on plans for a “neighbouring rights” law which would apply to the media. The report did not come as a shock.

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