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Reporting in East Timor
Peter Tukan
Peter Tukan, an Indonesian reporter with Antara’s Atambua office, writes about his experiences reporting from both inside East Timor prior to its independence, and living in the border region (on the Indonesian side) post independence. Story is available in English and Bahasa ... |
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Covering the tsunami
Six journalists recall their experiences reporting on the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami ... |
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New Orleans needs Santa—now!
John Pope
More than three months after Hurricane Katrina, promises of a massive reconstruction effort have yet to be fulfilled. "We need all the help we can get," writes New Orleans Times-Picayune medical/health reporter John Pope ... |
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The “Balibo Five”—30 Years Later
Shirley Shackleton
Oct. 16, 2005, will mark 30 years since five Australian television journalists were killed in a dawn raid by Indonesian special forces personnel in the small East Timorese border town of Balibo. Shirley Shackleton, the widow of one of the “Balibo Five,” recently spoke with Dart Centre Australasia director Cait McMahon ... |
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A Sense of Outrage
Gavin Hewitt
BBC correspondent Gavin Hewitt writes about covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He considers the personal challenges of reporting such tragedy and of balancing outrage and caution, and reconciling the urge to help with the need to broadcast ... |
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Reliving 9/11
Beth Fertig
WNYC reporter Beth Fertig describes listening to the recently released FDNY dispatch tapes from Sept. 11, 2001. On the day they were released, Fertig produced a 7½-minute feature story about the tapes. She explains how that story came together ... |
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15 Years of War
Leon Malherbe
A Dart Center interview with Reuters camera producer Leon Malherbe, who has covered most of the major conflicts of the past 15 years, including those in Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Congo, Israel and Iraq ... |
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A view from the survivor's side
Mary Self
‘Approximately half of the journalists who conducted these interviews acted professionally and with incredible empathy and understanding ... Likewise I had a lot of bad interviews ...’ |
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African Children
Jimi Matthews
‘We are just there to record the stuff. Too many years, too many images. No breaks. The places and people morph into one horror show. Too few pretty pictures to ease the discomfort. And through it all, there is the little boy in Badoa ...’ |
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Leaving Saigon: 30 years later
Arnold R. Isaacs
‘I knew that the scenes of fear and flight I wrote about every day were real. But they felt much more like something in a dream. When I remember those days, which I do fairly often (especially at this time of year), they still have that eerie dreamlike quality.’ |
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Images and memories of war
Don McCullin
‘War is very exciting, let's not beat about the bush. As a young man you go to war if you've got the nerve to see it through ... But when see your first dead child and your first starving child, then you think ‘God, this is awful.'’ |
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The emotional toll of disaster reporting
Kimina Lyall
‘Being tough, gruff and disconnected from the story might work well in political reporting, but those attributes don’t serve a story of such widespread despair as the tsunami.’ |
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Close encounters
Gary Tippet
‘We're intruding, going in unwanted—and often unnecessarily—to intrude ourselves on people's private grief. We need to be incredibly careful how we go about that task. It is an awesome responsibility.’ |
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‘An obligation to bear witness’
Janine di Giovanni
An award-winning journalist discusses the challenges of reporting on war and human rights abuses, and the importance of maintaining a personal life. |
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Tsunami Relief/Reporter Grief
Lee Cowan
CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan discusses his experience covering the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunamis in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. |
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Advice From One Who's Been There
Patrick Hamilton
Award-winning Australian photographer Patrick Hamilton talks about covering the tsunamis that killed more than 2200 in Papua New Guinea in 1998. |
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Returning to Beslan
Jonathan Charles
'Returning to Beslan felt like the right thing to do, a chance to put the terrible events that I'd witnessed on that early September day in to some sort of context.' |
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Shooting Violence
Nael Shyoukhri
'What you shoot, what you film and see can't just be forgotten easily,' the Reuters cameraman says. 'These pictures go home with you, stay in your mind, in your dreams.' |
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Stories of Forgiveness
Marina Cantacuzino
'It's become one of the Forgiveness Project's core principles that there will never be a victim talking without the voice of the perpetrator being heard as well.' |
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Reporting for Al-Jazeera
Yosri Fouda
'I am Muslim in everything I do. At least I hope the very beautiful values and principles of Islam such as being honest, being truthful, and doing your job to the best of your knowledge are with me all the time.' |
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Married to a War Reporter
Melanie Anstey
'If your husband is in constant danger, you end up living on red alert, and therefore you put your own needs last.' |
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Trying
to Wean Myself off War
Anonymous
'It's too easy to slip
up, or make a wrong judgement, or end up going
to a war zone that has a bullet with your name
on it.' |
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September 11: The Pivotal Moment
David Handschuh
'I made it plain to the newspaper that I never ever wanted to photograph anybody who’s dead or dying again.' |
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Walking on
Evil
Anonymous
'I became a foreign correspondent because I wanted to find out
how the world works. When I was growing up, I liked to write
and I wanted to travel. I was interested in politics, too, like
any other teenager in the 1960s in America when so much was
happening'. |
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Escape from
Kosovo: A Journalist's Nightmare
Valentin
Areh
An interview with Valentin Areh, a Slovenian war correspondent
who survived a tortuous escape out of Kosovo in 1999 during
NATO’s war to expel Serbian forces. |
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Reporting
on Human Suffering
Virginia
Crompton
Virginia Crompton is a BBC producer, whose experience recording
a World Service radio programme on water in Africa is a reminder
that trauma is a part of daily experience in many parts of the
world. |
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What Reporting
Combat Reveals About You
James
Brabazon
James Brabazon filmed the rebel conflict in Liberia in 2002,
where he documented images of human mutilation and cannibalism.
He talks about how reporting extreme situations can be very
personally revealing. |
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The Familiar
Voice of BBC Traffic
Christian
Archer | BBC News Traffic Manager
'It’s day eight of the Iraq war. Christian Archer, manager
of BBC’s News Traffic unit wearily welcomes me. It’s
been a long week for the team. “You can’t just go
home when something like this happens,” he comments'. |
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The "Dislocation" of
Coming Home
Jonathan
Charles | BBC Correspondent in Frankfurt
'I’m the man who can fall asleep while the Americans are
carpet-bombing a Taliban position in Afghanistan, literally
three or four hundred meters away. There are photographs to
prove it'. |
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I'm invincible.
Nothing's going to affect me.
Rob
Cole | News Producer
'I've always been a slightly nervous person. I laugh a lot and
cry a lot, and I wear my heart on my sleeve. But, I have never
had a problem ... I just lived my life and it was fine'. |
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A Question
of Faith in the Face of Disaster
Emma
Jane Kirby | The BBC Correspondent in Geneva
‘And its an ugly thought that journalists like us raise
our profiles on the backs of stories such as these. I just wanted
to ... wash off the fact that I was pushing my career forward
on the back of twenty-six tiny children’s deaths’. |
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All My Dreams
Contained Visions of Violence
Anonymous
Radio Journalist
‘I had been in a conflict zone, and had been caught in
a number of risky situations ... On this trip, I was forced
to avoid live gunfire, and also had to deal with some corpses
which were in a state of decay’. |
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The War Journalist
Mother
Sue Jameson
| Good Morning Television correspondent
'The most dangerous time for me happened in Lithuania in January
1991. Oliver was only six and it was very hard to leave him.
I remember saying on the phone to him ‘Olly, I have to
stay, I have to tell people what’s going on here'. |
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The Faith of
a Foreign Correspondent
David
Loyn | BBC Correspondent
'I do think, at a very profound level, journalism matters.
I think if you shine a light on things they get better. I think
the truth counts. There is only one truth and that is, in my
view, the truth of God'. |
