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- DEADLINE REPORTING -- NEWSPAPER/WIRE SERVICE. // Quill;Jun2004, Vol. 92 Issue 5, p11
This article provides information on the experience of war correspondent Joseph Giordono of the newspaper Stars and Stripes, who as an embedded journalist with U.S. troops in Kuwait, faced the first days of war in Iraq with the 1st Battalion and the 15th Infantry Regiment from Fort Benning,...
- Twelve months of conflict: a review. Mitchell, Greg // Editor & Publisher;12/15/2003, Vol. 136 Issue 45, p17
Provides an overview of the press coverage of the Iraq conflict as featured in "Editor & Publisher" from January to December 2003. Plan of the U.S. Defense Department to improve access for reports in any attack on Iraq in January; Error committed by several reporters on the start of the war in...
- Fallujah--when the moral crusaders fell silent. Edwards, David; Cromwell, David // New Statesman;4/26/2004, Vol. 133 Issue 4685, p23
Focuses on media coverage of the war in Iraq and other current events. Number of dead and wounded Iraqis in Fallujah, many of whom were civilians; Comments of Peter Roberts, spokesman for the BBC; Observation that Iraqi deaths are given less coverage; Examples of reports from ITV's "Lunchtime...
- Is the new news good news? Ewers, Justin // U.S. News & World Report;4/7/2003, Vol. 134 Issue 11, p48
Discusses how embedded journalists, technology and logistics have changed the nature of war reporting. Number of embedded journalists with American and British military units in Iraq; Emergence of embeds as the country's primary source of news in the ground in Iraq; High-tech broadcasts and...
- john pilger. // New Statesman;11/28/2005, Vol. 134 Issue 4768, p24
The author comments on the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) coverage of the Iraq war. Since its founding in 1922, the BBC has served to protect British establishments during war and civil unrest. The omission of shocking events in Iraq, including the destruction of cities and the...
- When the Fix Is In. FOREMAN, JONATHAN // National Review;9/10/2007, Vol. 59 Issue 16, p17
The article reports on Western journalists in Iraq and their use of local interpreters and "fixers," people who help them gather sources and set up interviews. The author says many of these local reporting assistants are Sunni Arabs, often former members of the ousted Baath regime, and that this...
- The Trouble with Sitting on the Story. Poniewozik, James // Time;4/28/2003, Vol. 161 Issue 17, p92
Discusses the implications of the media sheltering the public from some news. How it can be frustrating for journalists; Compromises in reporting; Experience of Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, during the Iraq War; Decision of CNN not to publish stories of Iraqi brutality out of...
- They're in the Army Now. ZINSMEISTER, KARL // National Review;4/21/2003, Vol. 55 Issue 7, p32
This article criticizes the caliber of journalists embedded with allied troops in the Iraq War. An open breach of the basic ground rules for embedded media took place in the 101st Airborne Division. But through these embedded journalists, the American public got an uninterrupted first hand...
- Personal Best. Beinart, Peter // New Republic;4/21/2003, Vol. 228 Issue 15/16, p6
Michael Kelly died covering the war in Iraq. And, in many of the obituaries written since, you can detect a hint of anxiety, a fear that people who knew him only from his columns--first in this space as TRB, then in "The Washington Post"--would remember him differently from how he really was....
- Papers weigh coverage in a forgotten war zone. Strupp, Joe // Editor & Publisher;9/29/2003, Vol. 136 Issue 34, p4
Reports on a decline in interest in the news coverage of the war on terrorism in Afghanistan due to budget cutbacks and the U.S. war with Iraq as of September 2003. Newspapers and reporters involved in the coverage of Afghanistan; Statement issued by Mike Jett, deputy foreign editor for the...
