What are major news organizations doing sending jihadi-approved photos from inside ISIS?

They’re also fraught with ethical pitfalls. The use of unnamed freelancers by major news organizations in an area ruled by one of the world’s most dangerous militant groups has raised a host of questions, from how these agencies can ensure their journalists’ safety to whether they can vouch for the methods of the anonymous photographers working for them — or these journalists’ relationship with the IS fighters they claim to cover.

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And as interviews with a few of the photographers currently working within the caliphate indicate, some agencies are willing to work far outside of traditional journalistic norms in order to provide a window into the world now almost entirely cut off from outsiders, in some cases even sacrificing editorial control to militant jihadists — all in order to get an up-close glimpse of the enemy.

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