The Long Captivity of Michael Scott Moore

Joshua Hammer:

Two years ago, when I began researching a piece for Outside about Moore's abduction, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, which had given Moore a grant to report from Somalia, as well as the German newsweekly Der Spiegel, which had once employed Moore on its English-language website, asked us to stop pursuing the story. David Rohde, who had been in touch with Moore's mother, also requested that we respect the blackout. "The family and both news organizations think publicity at this time will increase the captors' expectations and complicate negotiations," he explained via email. Outside respected the family's wishes and published nothing. In 2013, the Daily Beast assigned…