Reporter’s Notebook: A long journey

The work that journalists do is often daunting. Take radio reporters, for example: they have to interview a variety of sources, choose the best cuts and write around them in a compelling manner for their audience. From there, they record their own voice before combining all the audio elements into one neat package.
Most reporters have had their equipment die on them at some point – but what happens when you can’t buy a new recorder, because there are no electronic stores in your region? Well, that’s what happened to our Gaza correspondent, Rami Almeghari. When his recorder quit working, FSRN tried to send him a new one – we found out it isn’t that easy to get ship anything into Gaza. In this reporter’s notebook, Almegari describes the trek one digital recorder went through in a long journey.