Through Her Eyes : Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Trevor (Foreign correspondent)

Contributor:

Roberts, Melissa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anecdotes.

Foreign correspondents.

Women in journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Richmond : Hardie Grant Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

Australia's women correspondents tell their stories of working at the frontline around the world.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Contents

Timeline

Acknowledgements

Women in the hot zone

By Melissa Roberts and Trevor Watson

PART ONE: BREAKING NEWS

1. Exodus from Ukraine

Barbara Miller

Ukraine March 2022, Europe 2013-2016, ABC

2. Kate Geraghty: Somewhere north-east of Kyiv

Ukraine 2022, The Sydney Morning Herald

by Trevor Watson

3. The fall of the Soviet empire: Lessons for Putin

Monica Attard

Moscow 1989-1995, ABC

4. The face collectors of techno-authoritarian China

Cate Cadell

Beijing 2014-2021, Reuters

5. Dispatches from Afghanistan: 'Better write an obit'

Anna Coren

Kabul 2022, CNN

6. High value target: Running from the Taliban

Lynne O'Donnell

Kabul 2001-2021, AP, AFP, various

7. The last correspondent in the Beijing bureau

Kirsty Needham

Hong Kong 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age

8. The accidental correspondent

Tracey Holmes

China, Middle East 2001-2012, ABC, CNN, CGTN

PART TWO: MAKING HISTORY

9. Lorraine Stumm: A correspondent who saw too much

Hiroshima 1945, London Daily Mirror

by Melissa Roberts

10. Diane Willman: No place for young women

Beirut 1969-1979, ABC, CBC

11. Bin Laden and the Land of the Pure

Amanda Hodge

Pakistan 2011, The Australian

12. Shells slammed into the earth: Dispatches from a Syrian village

Ruth Pollard

Syria 2012, The Sydney Morning Herald

13. Hope restored in a Syrian oasis

Yaara Bou Melhem

Syria 2019, SBS and ABC

14. Rania Abouzeid: The taste of fire and smoke

Beirut 1999-present, freelance

15. The Hamas lonely hearts club of Gaza

Diaa Hadid

Gaza 2009, AP

16. Kate Webb: A life from a Graham Greene Novel

Cambodia 1971, UPI, AFP

17. A reporter's notebook: 'Fortune favours the foolish'

Ginny Stein.

Correspondent at large 1997 - present, ABC, SBS, freelance

18. Morning in America and a night out with Malcolm

Janine Perrett

New York 1985-1989, The Australian

PART THREE: BEING A CORRESPONDENT

19. What's news?

Emma Alberici

London 2008-2012, ABC

20. Crossing the line: One man's life or the story

Sophie McNeill

Jerusalem 2015-2018, ABC

21. Once upon a time in India

Melissa Roberts

Delhi 1981-1983, freelance

22. Hitching to the aftermath of a genocide

Candace Sutton

Central Africa 1994, The Sun-Herald

23. Forgiveness, justice and luck in West Africa

Prue Clarke

Liberia 2004, The Times

24. The arc bends slowly

Kylie Morris

The Middle East, Asia, US 1999-2019, BBC, Channel Four News

25. Margaret Jones: This amazing intrusion

China 1973-1976, The Sydney Morning Herald

26. 'Race Traitor'

Sue-Lin Wong

China, Hong Kong 2014 - present, Reuters, Financial Times, The Economist

27. A fight for freedom in paradise

Sue Williams

New Caledonia 1985-1987, freelance

28. A prime minister, a murder and a missing diamond

Mary Ann Jolley

Malaysia 2015 - present, Al Jazeera

29. A dictator, a housewife and a coup gone wrong

Gwen Robinson

Manila 1985-1988, The National Times

Copyright Page.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-74358-909-3

OCLC:

1344158725