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Gemma Fox

Deputy International Editor @gemmafox__

Gemma Fox was The Independent’s Deputy International Editor. She was previously based in Beirut and has reported on the Syrian civil war, the Israel-Gaza conflict, the rise of Isis and the European migrant crisis.

From Mexico to Sierra Leone, independent journalism ‘on knife-edge’ of extinction after crippling year

Newsrooms around the world holding governments to account and providing life-saving information to the public are close to collapse

<p>Mexico is considered the world’s most dangerous country for journalists</p>

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