Myanmar journalists endure attacks for reporting the coup

Media reporters and citizen journalists have been consistently covering anti-coup protests despite rising cases of attacks targeting them. Photo of a Yangon protest shared by a citizen journalist to Global Voices Around 87 journalists have been arrested since the February coup in Myanmar as of June 17 . Most journalists have fled their homes, and some even managed to escape to neighboring countries. Meanwhile, banned independent media outlets were forced to go underground in order to continue their work. Phil Thornton, a journalist and senior adviser to the International Federation of Journali...