On this edition of Media on the Margins, Malihe Razazan speaks with Syrian-born Frontline correspondent Muhammad Ali about his most recent reporting trip from the town of al-Atārib near Aleppo in northern Syria, which is the subject of his Frontline documentary, “Syria’s Second Front.” Since the start of the uprising in 2011, Ali, a 32-year-old Damascus native, has been to Syira on assignment thirteen times. He called his latest trip "a suicide mission.”
According to an annual report from the Committee to Protect Journalists, Syria remained the most deadly place for journalists on the job in 2013. The Associated Press reports that thirty journalists have been kidnapped or gone missing since April of last year.