Reporting War and Conflict

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Janet Harris is an award-winning documentary producer/director, having worked for many years at the BBC and as a freelancer with experience of working in Iraq in war and post-war. She holds a PhD on the media coverage of the British military in post-war Iraq and teaches the practice and theory of documentary production at Cardiff University, UK.

Kevin Williams was until recently Professor of Media and Communication History at Swansea University, UK. He has written widely on the history and theory of the media, including several books on war reporting, such as co-authoring The Fog of War: The Media on the Battlefield (1986) and War and Peace News (1985). His most recent book was International Journalism (2011).

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Reporting War and Conflict brings together history, theory and practice to explore the issues and obstacles involved in the reporting of war and conflict today. The book argues that risk is an integral part of war reporting and uses it as a prism through which to analyse how individual reporters, news organisations and society make sense of it.

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Reporting War and Conflict brings together history, theory and practice to explore the issues and obstacles involved in the reporting of war and conflict today. The book argues that risk is an integral part of war reporting and uses it as a prism through which to analyse how individual reporters, news organisations and society make sense of it.

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Preface

Introduction

1. Risk and war journalism

2. Bearing witness: morality, risk and war reporting

3. Organisational and occupational risks and war reporting

4. Technology and risk management: telegraph, telex and Twitter

5. Media on the battlefield: risk and embedding

6. Asymmetrical wars: reporting post-war Iraq

7. Risk and reporting new forms of war and conflict

8. Risk and the reporting of death, dying and the casualties of war

9. Gender, risk and war reporting