Reporting from the danger zone : frontline journalists, their jobs, and an increasingly perilous future / Maria Armoudian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armoudian, Maria, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Vocational guidance.

Journalism.

Reporters and reporting--Vocational guidance.

Reporters and reporting.

Foreign news.

Physical Description:

155 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Journalism is a dangerous business when one's "beat" is a war-zone, a corrupt regime, or organized crime. In Reporting from the Danger Zone, Maria Armoudian reveals the complications facing frontline journalists who cover these hotspots, including how they find, access, and deliver their stories while keeping themselves safe from harm. Although conflict journalism has always been fraught with danger, today's reporters face even more perilous conditions while also contending with shrinking journalism budgets, news outlets' greater reliance on freelancers, tracking technologies, and increasingly hostile terrain. Armoudian also contrasts the difficulties of foreign correspondents who navigate alien sources, languages, and land, with domestically situated war correspondents who witness their own homelands being torn apart. Armoudian documents journalists' thoughts, emotions, and strategies in their own words. Their dramatic and compelling journeys reveal the fortitudes and frailties of humanity as well as the dynamics and struggles of the information wars, revealing factors that determine the information we do, and do not, receive from danger zones. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

On the origin of stories

The foreign correspondent's afflictions

Staying alive

Living in a danger zone

The first casualty

Conclusion

Appendix

Resources for journalists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138840041

1138840041

9781138840058

113884005X

OCLC:

936350456