Approach ISIS tweets with caution

From Columbia Journalism Review Thu Nov 20 2014, 16:45:00

By Jared Malsin CAIRO--When it seized huge parts of Syria and Iraq this year, the self-proclaimed Islamic State--and the geopolitical chaos surrounding it--became one of the biggest news stories on the planet. But journalists have little means of directly reporting on the group, its activities on the ground, or the havoc it has sown in the region. A physical meeting with the group's...

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