War words
A correspondent cooks
Andrew Whitehead, the BBC’s former man in Delhi, has a new book out called A Mission in Kashmir. More interestingly, he’s cooking Spanish food for Indian journalists and their families in New Delhi. The Business Standard’s Rrishi Raote has more, He was in Delhi for the launch of his book, A Mission in Kashmir, but […]
Shooting War
Shooting War is a graphic novel set in the Iraq of 2011. Journalist Anthony Lappe drew on his experience working for the New York Times in Iraq to create the book with artist Dan Goldman.
Story behind the snap
Photographer Luis Sinco tells the story of the image he took of Marine Lance Corporal James Blake Miller as the soldier’s regiment entered Falluja on 8 November 2004, On the second day of the battle, I called my wife by satellite phone to tell her that I was OK. She told me my photo had […]
Comicbook journalism
War reporter cartoonist Joe Sacco is interviewed in the Star Tribune. Socca has cartooned from Palestine to Bosnia and, most recently, Iraq, I certainly wondered how seriously I would be taken when I started “Palestine.” First of all, comics at the time were still dismissed by the mainstream. And comics about Palestinians? Here was a […]
In the footsteps of William Howard Russell
Richard Beeston at The Times heads to Crimea in the footsteps of William Howard Russell, a war reporter of the 150 year old school, It is almost impossible for today’s reporter to witness and record more than a snap-shot of the whole picture… Not so for Billy Russell, as he was known by the troops, […]
AP does war and peace
John Daniszewski, International Editor at the Associated Press and veteran foreign correspondent with 20 years of experience in the bank together with a Romanian revolution gunshot wound in the arm contributes to a new book. The title requires a deep breath… The Associated Press-Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything […]
Is the media a weapon?
Retired major-general Lewis MacKenzie was having a natter during his keynote at the University of Waterloo in Canada when I got onto the subject of war reporting. It’s all just too darned quick these days, MacKenzie, known for leading peacekeeping troops in the former Yugoslavia… commanded soldiers in the Gaza Strip, Cyprus, Vietnam and shot […]
From war correspondent to lawyer
C. Justin Brown recounts his life as a war correspondent in the Maryland Daily Record. Last year, after being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his Balkans reporting, he ditched the flak jacket for a lawyer’s wig, Looking outside, he saw a NATO Tomahawk missile slam into the upper floors of the nearby UÅ¡ce Tower, […]
You’re all mad
Interesting nuggets aplenty in the NPR interview with Paul Watson I linked to previously. Including this, Are you saying being a war correspondent is a form of mental illness? I think it is. I’ve spent enough time around people who do this a lot. In my opinion and I include myself foremost in this group […]
Where war lives
In his new book – War lives here – Canadian foreign correspondent and Pulitzer prize winner Paul Watson is haunted by a split second decision he made in Mogadishu on October 4, 1993, “The crowd parted, forming a manic horseshoe around the corpse. My eyes panned the frenzy like a camera guided by invisible hands. […]
Bell up north
The bloke in the white suit, ex-war reporter and shrapnel magnet Martin Bell, will be speaking in Lancaster next month. Mr Bell will speak about his long career as a war reporter and MP for Tatton in a lecture called Reflections on War, Peace and Politics on October 18. In his 30-year career with the […]
Halberstam’s hermit kingdom years
New, and last, David Halberstam book is out covering the “forgotten” Korean war. Editor & Publisher argues that the book, called The Coldest Winter, overlooks the victims, It unsparingly exposes the foolishness and arrogance of U.S. strategy and strategists – in failing to prepare a pared-down Army for the war that began when North Korea […]
