Al Jazeera Journalism Review
Ilya U Topper, born in Spain in 1972, is a Spanish journalist focusing on Mediterranean countries. Since 2011 he has worked in Istanbul as a correspondent for the Spanish news agency Efe.
Writer’s Articles
The correspondent's job: Ask people, don't tell them
Should foreign correspondents and their media organisations ever take a stand on another country’s political divisions?
Field notes from an earthquake - reporting on human misery
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: Where do you draw the line when covering human suffering? When does reporting on a devastating earthquake cross over from objective journalism to tasteless voyeurism?
Beware of trying to ‘cause’ the news to happen
How rumours and speculation about a refugee ‘Convoy of Light’ descending on the Greek border with Turkey were taken up by some members of the press - when it never actually happened
Beware of activist journalists - they won’t always tell the ugly truth
It is the job of journalists to report the full truth - even when that might cast the ‘good’ guys in a ‘bad’ light