Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has quit Reuters after eight years, denouncing the agency’s Gaza coverage as a “betrayal of journalists” and accusing it of enabling Israel’s killing of reporters.
"At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza,” Zink said Tuesday on X.
Zink said she worked as a Reuters stringer for eight years, with her photos published by many outlets, including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and others worldwide.
She criticized Reuters’ reporting after the killing of Anas Al-Sharif and an Al Jazeera crew in Gaza, accusing the agency of amplifying Israel’s "entirely baseless claim” that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative, which was "one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified,” she said.
"I have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can’t conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief,” Zink said.
