Joao Silva was a NY Times photographer in Iraq and Afghanistan until a recent incident where he stepped on a landmine and lost both his legs. As Silva recovers in hospital, his replacement, Michael Kamber, tells of the undeniable pull felt by the war photographer.
Embedded journalists
How journalism is failing us in the Iraq War
There’s a reason “embedded” became a dirty word in journalism: most of the news coming out from Iraq and Afghanistan is highly filtered, not representative of what is going on and completely overplays the US Military’s importance and success, declares Patrick Cockburn.
Where’s the line between propaganda and embedded photographer?
Iraq War photographer Patrick Baz gives a fascinating account of his time in the war zone, from dressing up and pretending he was a Lebanese Muslim, to being forced to become embedded with the US military.
War reporting: how much horror is too much?
CNN reporter Michael Ware may be the latest public casualty of post-traumatic stress disorder from covering war zones, but he’s certainly not alone. So what’s the cost of war reporting? Try relationship break downs, excessive drinking, depression and anger problems.
What role should journalists play in war?
Andrew Bolt has argued that the soldiers in the Wikileaks killing were blameless because the journalists they killed were among a band of terrorists. But where else should they be? asks Dave Gaukroger.
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I was a pregnant embedded journalist in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Rubin tells of her time as a pregnant war journo embedded with the US military, dealing with injured mothers and children, relieving her bladder in drink bottles and watching the Taliban kill those around her.
How journalists are letting NATO get away with murder
NATO and US forces are committing and covering-up atrocities in Afghanistan, but the embedded journalists there are so dependent on them for access and security, nothing is being reported, reveals war reporter Jeremy Starkey in a blistering attack.
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Which high-profile war correspondent is also a spy?
Three anonymous military sources have separately claimed that a high-profile journalist currently working in a war zone is also a secret agent, according to Gawker.
US military bans photos of war dead in Afghanistan
The US military has officially banned embedded journalists from taking photos or recording footage of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Is it press censorship, or just giving the deceased and their families the respect and privacy they deserve?
What is our military hiding from the media?
A Dateline journo reporting on the war in Afghanistan, John Martinkus, was repeatedly denied access to Australian military or embraced so whole heartedly that no just reporting could occur. What is the ADF trying to hide?
An embedded journo defends his record
Following revelations that the US military is vetting journalists’ past work for negative war coverage before allowing them to be embedded in Afghanistan, writer Nir Rosen — who was allowed to embed — has scored a copy of the intel prepared on him, and he isn’t happy.
At Stars and Stripes independent, investigative journalism soldiers on
America’s daily military paper Stars and Stripes has been doing some nice investigative journalism recently on the issue of censorship and embedded journalists in Afghanistan.
US military screening embeded journalists
The US armed forces have employed a PR firm to “screen” journalists before they’re allowed to be embedded with military units in Afghanistan, analysing whether they have provided positive or negative coverage of the army in the past, according to Stars and Stripes.
Student journos head to Iraq
Three Alaskan journalism students are heading to Iraq to become embedded journalists. Frighteningly, this means the University of Alaska is about have more journalists in Iraq than any major US paper.
