Hanna Ingber Win (M.A. print journalism, '08) wrote an Oct. 1 Washington Post article and broadcast an Oct. 9 NPR story about the recent protests in Burma and the way its residents have smuggled images and news out of the tightly controlled country through e-mail.

"These photographs, depicting protests in downtown Rangoon, arrived in my inbox Thursday from an American living in Burma," Win said. "In one, people are running from soldiers who have started shooting at the crowd. They are running along Sule Pagoda Road, the street where I lived in 2003 while working for the weekly Myanmar Times."

She wrote about living and working in Burma in 2003, and the way the controlling junta controlled news, including weather reports, and speculated that the generals want to maintain the idea that Burma is a peaceful place.

"That myth was shattered last week, and continues to erode with each new image and report that finds its way to the Web," she wrote.

Hanna Ingber Win is a columnist for USC Annenberg's  popandpolitics.com.

Washington Post article/pictures
NPR story
Sept. 30 Hartford Courant article