Notes from journalists covering crisis, especially focused on journalistic questions, challenges, and lessons learned.
Vanessa Gezari is a Foreign/National Correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times, which is owned by The Poynter Institute. I e-mailed Vanessa and asked her to answer questions about her experience covering the tsunami, in return she wrote a personal account of her… Read more
Mehul Srivastava, 24, a reporter for the Dayton Daily News, wrote a first person narrative about his experiences in India while covering the tsunami. Srivastava is a native of Calcutta, and a graduate of Washington & Lee University’s School of… Read more
Dr. Mona Khanna M.D., M.P.H., Medical Correspondent, KTVT CBS 11 News, Dallas-Fort Worth, shares her thoughts on covering the tsunami.
Impact — I can only speak for myself. I’m humbled. Not only are areas so devastated and was
Middle East Correspondent Mitch Potter writes for the Toronto Star. In an e-mail Q&A Potter answered questions about what it takes to be a good journalist under tough circumstances. Potter covers all major conflicts in the Middle East.… Read more
Covering a crisis can have a major impact on the journalists who are reporting stories from devastated areas. I asked journalists covering the tsunami to answer a few questions about what they are seeing and feeling as they… Read more
Here’s a list of resources to help you put covering the South Asian tsunami into context.
Poynter Articles:
Matt Wells in Budapest
The Guardian
Television reports produced by “embedded” correspondents in the Iraq conflict gave a sanitised picture of war, according to an academic study published by the BBC today.
Researchers found that although reporters who accompanied theBy Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 14, 2003; Page A04
The Bush administration, displeased with the news coverage of the war in Iraq, has accelerated efforts to bypass the national media by telling the administration’s story directly to… Read more
The New York Times
By ALEX BERENSON
Published: September 28, 2003
AGHDAD, Iraq — More than 300 American troops have been killed since the war in Iraq began. According to Pentagon records, more than 160 have been killed since President Bush declared on… Read more
By Anthony Shadid and Karl Vick
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, September 25, 2003; Page A19
BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 (Thursday) — A small explosive detonated early this morning near the hotel here that houses the staff of NBC News, killing… Read more