AP foreign correspondents in action : World War II to the present / Giovanna Dell'Orto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dell'Orto, Giovanna, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Associated Press.

Foreign correspondents--United States--Interviews.

Foreign correspondents.

Foreign news--United States.

Foreign news.

United States.

Journalism--United States.

Journalism.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xvii, 393 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Based on extended interviews conducted from the Pakistani countryside to Washington, AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present reveals for the first time what it takes to get the stories that brought the world home to America. It gives new front-line insights into major events from the Japanese surrender in 1945 to the 2010s Syrian civil war, and it helps to understand news impact on international affairs through evolving journalistic practices. Both successes and failures through eight decades of foreign correspondence from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe show that public discourse has been best served by correspondents who, at great risk, challenged accepted narratives, exposed omnipresent lies, gave a voice to the voiceless, and stymied the frequently violent efforts of those who feared truth-telling eyewitnesses"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Getting ready, getting started, and getting lost in translation; 3. What's the story? News judgment, news pitches; 4. Getting to the sources (and keeping them alive); 5. Being an American abroad

perceptions of journalists; 6. Eyewitness reporting: getting to the scene; 7. The costs of being there to count the bodies; 8. Your byline today, mine tomorrow: teamwork and competition; 9. Access, censorship, and spin: relating with foreign governments; 10. Flacks, spooks, and objective journalists: relating with the US government abroad; 11. Getting it out, getting it edited: filing news and handling editors; 12. The evolving milkmen: writing for an audience; 13. Purpose and influence of foreign correspondence; 14. Eight decades of bearing witness and telling the world's stories: conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107108301

1107108306

9781107519305

1107519306

OCLC:

930364235

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