Over the past year, imprisonment of journalists and violence against media professionals have spiked.

Charles M Sennott is a longtime international correspondent for The Boston Globe, a best selling author and award-winning documentary producer. He is ... the founder and editor-in-chief of The GroundTruth Project, a non-profit journalism organisation that is home to two flagship programmes supporting emerging journalists in under-covered corners of the world: Report for America and Report for the World. He is the Institute for Liberal Arts' visiting scholar at Boston College where he teaches a seminar titled "Truth: A Short History." He is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and recently received the distinguished alumni award from his alma mater, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Over the past year, imprisonment of journalists and violence against media professionals have spiked.