Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Jill Carroll, Journalist

Poynter Online sends bite-sized pieces of news to my inbox. It's a superb free service that I signed up for some time ago.

Today, Amy Gahran wrote up and linked me through to the Christian Science Journal's piece on and by Jill Carroll.

It begins with an introduction : Some reporters see themselves merely as history's witnesses - scribes on the sidelines. They are uncomfortable in the limelight. Jill Carroll is one of those who prefer the anonymity of print journalism. She lost that when she was taken hostage, though she hopes (perhaps naively) to eventually regain it. Today, when recognized in a coffee shop, she stops going there.

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