Chris Gray’s War Diary

  Chris Gray is picture editor with the BBC NewsNight team. In Kurdistan from the days of the lead up to war, he provided this glimpse of the everyday life of a journalists' community waiting for, and sometimes getting, their story.       March 10 Journey to northern Iraq/Kurdistan. …

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Maggie Zanger’s Letters

  Maggie Zanger, a member of the Journalism and Mass Communications Department at the American University in Cairo, returned to Kurdistan in January to do research. Quickly enlisted by NBC as a news analyst, she soon found herself fully involved in the business of being a war journalist, albeit on …

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GULF WAR THREE: Covering The Coverage | Reporting the War

REPORTING THE WAR Dispatches from the Field:perhaps no war in history has been the subject of such up-close, real-time reporting. In between the feeds and one-on-ones that form "the product," satellite journalists were dealing with bureaucracies, war lords, cheap hotels, and intermittent grave danger. Maggie Zanger, who went to Iraqi Kurdistan …

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From the Editors

Journalistic convention in America tends to treat this war as Gulf War II but we have chosen to refer to it as Gulf War III, which is the way many writers in our region-the Middle East-perceive the war. The difference is symptomatic, on both sides of a great divide made …

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Globalization of Indian Satellite TV Marks 25 Years

October 15, 2002 marked 25 years since the advent of satellite TV in India. Its globalization impact across the populous country has both changed the way Indians perceive the world outside and prompted the Indian satellite and cable industry to cross frontiers with world programming. The national television channel Prasar …

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News World Conference, Dublin November 19-21, 2002

The "Countdown to Conflict" session that opened the News World 2002 conference began calmly enough, with Martin Howard, director general of corporate communications for the UK Ministry of Defense, explaining his efforts to get British officers to understand that "part of their duty is to explain" military operations to the …

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STOP PRESS

The following stories appeared too soon before TBS's deadline to allow reporting. TBS considered them important enough to quote direct from the press. From Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 7 -13 November 2002, Issue 611 Protocols, Politics and Palestine Amira Howeidy reports on the furore surrounding a Dream-produced TV series alleged to contain …

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Countdown to Conflict

The following is the transcript of a panel discussion that took place on November 19, 2002 at News World's annual conference. With military action looming in Iraq, and after a year of conflict in Afghanistan, a debate about the rights and responsibilities of journalists in conflict zones. How is the …

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