Just a note to let you know that later this month I'll be speaking about the BBC's coverage of the Mumbai attacks in 2008. The paper is a case study of the BBC's adoption of live text commentary to report......more

Discussions around embedded journalism in Afghanistan tend to focus on journalists joining up with NATO or U.S. forces but what about the view we get from an embed with the Taliban? In the video below, Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal risks......more

Earlier today a plane crashed in Pakistan killing all 152 people that were on board. The Airblue aircraft came down in hills north of the capital, Islamabad. Footage from the scene of the aftermath was posted to YouTube and highlighted......more

Main coverageWikileaks"The Afghan War Diary [is] an extraordinary secret compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports describe the majority of lethal military actions involving the United States military."We hope its release......more

Earlier today I came across an interesting blog post by Holly Pickett who recently finished her seven week rotation as the New York Times bureau photographer in Baghdad. She says:"It is nearly impossible to photograph the aftermath of a car bomb......more

So yesterday on Twitter I asked a question: when was the first official U.S. military blog started?Of course, long gone are the days when blogs were an unknown quantity, and these days blogs by U.S. soldiers will usually be signed......more

Need to run out in a moment or two so excuse the brevity of the post, but I've just been helpfully pointed in the direction of a press release on military blogging:'British forces in Afghanistan have launched their first-ever mass......more

Last week, General Stanley McChrystal was fired from his position in charge of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan after comments he made in a magazine article. As I write it looks as though he will retire from the military......more

CitizenTube, run by YouTube, recently announced that it would be providing a breaking news feed of video that is uploaded to its website. It has 'dallied' with news videos in the past around the Iran election protests last year and......more

According to the Daily Beast, NPR and apparently Wikileaks itself, the organisation is preparing to release a video of a U.S. airstrike on a village in Afghanistan which caused civilian casualties.In April, Wikileaks released footage of a U.S. Apache helicopter......more