The role of the International Journalist in Human rights reporting

Peter Stothard asks the question as to whether International Journalism still serves human rights?

Writing in the Times he is about to speak

at a 'round table' on whether 'with forgotten wars and murdered reporters, international journalism still serves the cause of democracy and human rights'.

and concludes that

Sometimes international reporters have assuredly helped the cause of human rights. Sometimes they have not. My sense is that this pattern remains still true today.