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To cover the soldiers of War War II, Ernie Pyle became one of them. He was the most acclaimed news correspondent of the war. Even at age 40 when the war started, Pyle (1900-45) lived among the men he covered and wrote home to their loved ones about. His column for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain ran six times a week and was read by millions. His work was so popular because he subjected himself to the same lifestyle and similar dangers as the U.S. soldiers — from North Africa to Italy, France and the Pacific. "I am no longer...

BAGHDAD — Two CBS News journalists were missing in the predominantly Shiite southern city of Basra, the network said Monday. CBS said all efforts were under way to find the journalists, who were not identified by the network. It requested "that others do not speculate on the identities of those involved" until more information was available. Iraqi police said the journalists were taken away Sunday after masked gunmen entered the Sultan Palace Hotel in central Basra. The police spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media. "CBS News has been in touch with the...

The figure in the photograph is clad in Army fatigues, boots and helmet, lying on his back in peaceful repose, folded hands holding a military cap. Except for a thin trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth, he could be asleep. But he is not asleep; he is dead. And this is not just another fallen GI; it is Ernie Pyle, the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II. As far as can be determined, the photograph has never been published. Sixty-three years after Pyle was killed by the Japanese, it has surfaced — surprising historians, reminding...

NEW YORK (AP) - The figure in the photograph is clad in Army fatigues, boots and helmet, lying on his back in peaceful repose, folded hands holding a military cap. Except for a thin trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth, he could be asleep. But he is not asleep; he is dead. And this is not just another fallen GI; it is Ernie Pyle, the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II. As far as can be determined, the photograph has never been published. Sixty-three years after Pyle was killed by the Japanese, it has...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2007 – On Jan. 29, 2006, a roadside-bomb explosion near Taji, Iraq, started one TV news personality on a journey from war correspondent to casualty of war, and finally to co-founder of a fund-raising organization to improve awareness about traumatic brain injury. ABC news reporter Bob Woodruff, left, and Rene Bardorf, executive director of the Bob Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury, meet with Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England in July 2007. Woodruff and his family established the fund after he suffered a traumatic brain injury in January 2006 while covering the war in Iraq....

Katie Couric's first blog entry from Iraq is probably one of the best examples of a lack of humility mixed with ditz one could read. Then again, we are talking about a rich, liberal, irrelevant anchorwoman…. August 31, 2007 Katie: Greetings From Baghdad Here I am, my first day in Baghdad… It is overwhelming to be here and there is so much to take in. It's all about you, Katie. Enjoy. I don't think most Americans understand what the Green Zone is, and many people feel those who live and work there are so cut off from what's happening in...

KANDAHAR -- Journalists travelling with the Canadian Forces will be required to wear military dog tags to identify them if they are injured or killed, Canada's top commander here said Monday. The new policy is part of a series of measures designed to remind the media of the risks of operating in this war-ravaged country. "We're not trying to restrain the freedom of movement of the media or their access to convoys, but we want to be assured that they understand the nature of the beast," said Brig.-Gen. Guy Laroche, Canada's top-ranking officer in Afghanistan. Over a dozen journalists from...

Budgets are trimmed, coverage is more perilous—and ratings are falling In late June, a suicide bomber breached security at the Baghdad hotel where the CBS News bureau is housed. The bomber’s target: Sunni sheiks meeting in the lobby. The bomb decimated the lobby and tore through the first floor. The bomber and 12 others were killed; many more were injured, including a CBS employee. Lara Logan, CBS News’ chief foreign correspondent, was on the second floor of the hotel at the time. The bomb, she recalls, "blew up underneath me." It also blew a hole in the psyche of the...

Say what you will about reporters in general or the New York Times in particular: John Burns breaks all the stereotypes. As the Times’ longtime Baghdad bureau chief, he has been a fearless and honest chronicler of the war. He has presented plenty of evidence of disasters, but he isn’t afraid to highlight successes when they occur, and to warn of the dangers of American disengagement.

(CBS News) BAGHDAD An Iraqi journalist for The New York Times was shot to death Friday on his way to work, less than an hour after he called the bureau to say a checkpoint had blocked his normal route, the newspaper said. Khalid W. Hassan was the second Times employee to be killed in Iraq, the newspaper said. Gunmen killed Hassan, 23, in the southwest Baghdad district of Sadiyah, according to a statement from Times spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis. The newspaper reported on its Web site that Hassan had called the bureau to say he was blocked by a checkpoint. A...

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News Channel in Gaza on Monday, a witness and the U.S. television network said. A Fox spokeswoman in New York named the two journalists as correspondent Steve Centanni, an American, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, from New Zealand. A Fox news report said the network did not know who had seized them but that "negotiations were under way to secure their release". There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction. The witness said two vehicles blocked the journalists' transmission truck in the center of Gaza City...

CNN just cant except that FOX News is a legitimate media outlet and refuses to acknowledge that fellow Journalists have been abducted by terrorists.

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News television channel in Gaza on Monday, a witness said. The witness, a Palestinian who worked with the two journalists, said one of them, a producer, was an American, and the other, whose nationality he did not know, was a cameraman. The Fox News bureau in Jerusalem said it was checking the report. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction. The witness said two vehicles blocked the journalist's transmission truck in the center of Gaza City and a masked man put a gun to...

Unlike many of her colleagues, Katie Couric won’t be venturing to the war-torn Middle East after she takes over the anchor chair on "CBS Evening News” in September. "I think the situation there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that’s something I won’t be doing,” she told NBC’s Access Hollywood. That gave Access Hollywood a chance to crow that NBC’s Martin Fletcher was not only in Israel, but he and his crew nearly became battle casualties. "A rocket fell 100 yards in front of us, straight in our line of driving,” Fletcher said. "Five seconds...

Mere miles from St. Tropez, where celebrities like Paris Hilton, Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock were recently spotted enjoying the sand and sun, the world has erupted into a very frightening place. And once again, American news correspondents are braving life-threatening dangers to bring viewers and readers the story of the escalating violence in Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.NBC's Martin Fletcher is in Israel, where he and his crew came within seconds of becoming war casualties."A rocket fell 100 yards in front of us, straight in our line of driving," Fletcher told Access Hollywood. "Five seconds...

The American Society of Professional Journalists today said it would offer major news organizations like CNN and the New York Times a “core values” training course in the wake of an incident in Haditha, Iraq. The journalist training comes as the Pentagon offers its own brand of values reinforcement for U.S. troops. “We’re just going to cover the basics,” said an unnamed trainer, “We’ll reinforce the bedrock values that 99.9 percent of journalists already live by, but may not always remember under the stress, fear and isolation of war.” The following is a partial list of topics from the “core...

A CBS spokeswoman says correspondent Kimberly Dozier has undergone two surgeries since being injured in a car bombing Monday in Iraq. Doctors have removed shrapnel from her head, but they say the most series injuries are to her lower body. Dozier is being treated in Germany. The blast in Baghdad killed British cameraman Paul Douglas and freelance soundman James Brolan. Military officials say Dozier will be treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, which is the U.S. military's largest overseas hospital. CBS says all three journalists were riding in an armored humvee and are believed to have been wearing protective...

Michael Ware, the TIME magazine Baghdad bureau chief who gained renown for in-depth coverage of the insurgency in Iraq, will join CNN as a correspondent based in Baghdad, it was announced today by Tony Maddox, senior vice president of international newsgathering operations. A frequent guest to CNN over the last five years, Ware becomes a full-time international correspondent providing news reports and analysis across all CNN networks. On CNN/U.S., Ware will be a regular contributor to Anderson Cooper 360° as well as appearing on other programs. “Michael is one of the most accomplished correspondents working in Iraq. His exclusive stories...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - CBS News said Monday that two of its crew members were killed in an attack on a U.S. military unit in Iraq. Correspondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously wounded, the network said. The network identified the dead as cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan. The three journalists were embedded with a team from the Fourth Infantry Division when the convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device on Monday, CBS said.

CBS/AP) Two London-based members of the CBS News team, veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed and correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was seriously injured Monday when the Baghdad military unit in which they were imbedded was attacked. They were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED). The attack was among a slew of car and roadside bombs left about three dozen people dead before noon Monday, including one explosion that killed 10 people on a bus. Nearly all the...

"Tainted" Embeds and the role of MilBloggers One of the big issues at the MiBlogger Conference was, of course, bias in the media. While there are those who will contest such claims, it seems pretty clear to Murdoc that (at the very least) the mainstream media suffers from gross ignorance of military strategy, tactics, and history. This, of course, is gross generalization, and there are exceptions to the rule. But the low number of exceptions do a lot to prove said rule. The mainstream media suffers from gross ignorance of military strategy, tactics, and history.The third panel at the conference,...

    Is the Press Covering the Iraq War On the Cheap? The media needs to send more "troops" to cover the war and provide much-needed coverage. What's stopping them? Fear of violence, certainly, but also limits on training and insurance. Joe Galloway also notes the military's "growing resistance" to embeds. By Bruce Kesler (April 25, 2006) -- Journalists are reviled by many for alleged negativism and over-focus on bad news in Iraq. Or perhaps the problem is: Their employers are just trying to do it on the cheap. Ironically, the same media that criticizes the U.S. for sending too...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Documentary filmmaker Rich Fitoussi never liked getting into the Canadian army's much-heralded, much-loved light armoured vehicle - LAV III - or its cousin the Bison armoured car. Even though the largely windowless metal cocoon is meant to keep him and hundreds of dust-covered soldiers whose lives he chronicled safe, it was always a nerve-wracking, uncomfortable experience. Never more so than Saturday, as the well-travelled Toronto-native found himself hunkered down inside a Bison when suspected Taliban militants unleashed their deadly fury on a Canadian convoy, killing four soldiers. "I feel a little bit guilty," said Fitoussi, 32,...

More journalists and media staffers have been killed during the Iraq war than during any conflict since World War II, Reporters Without Borders said Monday, the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. A total of 84 reporters and media staffers have been killed in the Iraq war - including eight this year - according to a report by the Paris-based media advocacy group. That was more than the 63 journalists killed during 22 years of conflict in Vietnam, the statement said. The Iraq war death toll also has exceeded the number of journalists and staffers killed during conflicts...

Published: March 16, 2006 11:45 AM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. After 41 years on the military beat, covering stories from Fort Riley, Kan. to Vietnam and Iraq, Joe Galloway says he is taking a permanent leave. Come June 1, the 64-year-old scribe will give up his desk at Knight Ridder’s D.C. bureau and settle permanently in the bayfront cottage he owns just north of Corpus Christi, Tex. “I consider myself the luckiest guy in the world to have survived against the odds, to have had the experiences, the stories, the people that this profession has given me,” Galloway said this week...

Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic FEBRUARY 2--In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps. In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April. Once again the "smarter", more "civilized", and more "tolerant" MSM shows us their true stripes. TRUTH is...

Threats to media cloud American view of Iraq By Claudia ParsonsSun Jan 22, 1:37 PM ET Kidnapping is the biggest nightmare of every Western journalist in Iraq but both foreign and Iraqi reporters face many other obstacles that obscure the U.S. public's understanding of the war. Jill Carroll, an American freelance journalist missing in Iraq, was the 36th reporter to be kidnapped since April 2004, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Six of them have been killed. "This has been our No. 1 threat and our worst nightmare for almost two years," Jackie Spinner, a Washington Post...

Iraq has been the deadliest place for journalists in 2005, accounting for 22 of the 47 journalists killed worldwide, a report says. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says more than three-quarters of the journalists killed worldwide have been murdered to silence or punish them. It has said the total killed was down from 57 in 2004, of which two-thirds were murders, but is still well above the annual average of 34 deaths in the last 10 years. Executive director Ann Cooper says Iraq has become the deadliest conflict for the media in the CPJ's 24-year history, with a total...

While most people were absorbed in the Miers withdrawal and the bogus Plame case, the Associated Press pulled another fast one on the public. The Associated Press held a Managing Editors Conference in San Jose CA. As usual, the coverage of Iraq was a major part of the conference. The Associated Press came under fire in August after newspaper editors questioned the negativity of the Iraq coverage. The public was putting the pressure on the editors to print stories about the “good news” in Iraq. The AP came up with excuses for the biased coverage – too dangerous for reporters,...

A panel of journalists at the Associated Press Managing Editors conference spoke about difficulties in Iraq, in what amounted to a blame the administration and the failure to provide security for their one-sided portrayals of Iraq. The AP article by Michael Warren makes it sound like journalists are the victims, and they are chomping at the bit to cover good news and progress, but security has prevented them. I would concede that security in some areas may limit media access, but let's keep in mind that the primary purpose of this conflict is not to accomodate the media, and plenty...

The Palestine and Sheraton hotels were the world's windows on Baghdad during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Television reporters stood on rooftops of the side-by-side hotels for their live shots, using a nearby blue-domed mosque in Firdous Square as a backdrop. Photographers took pictures of smoldering palaces from the hotels' upper floors. And Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf gained international fame for his absurd claims of Iraqi military victories - all delivered from a Palestine Hotel banquet room. The Palestine was shelled on April 8, 2003, by a U.S. tank from across the Tigris River. Soldiers said they believed...

"Company of Heroes" I’ve been covering the war in Iraq for nearly two and a half years, going along with U.S. soldiers and Marines as they hunt for insurgents, knock down doors, get caught in firefights, and dodge roadside bombs. But I realized in the last couple of months that I’d only been covering part of the war, the part you see on TV most of the time. There’s this other huge part of the war you rarely get to see, but a part that’s just as, if not more so, important. It’s the huge hunk of personal struggle that...

The man accused of leading the gang which murdered Australian television cameraman, Harry Burton, and three other journalists in 2001, has been captured in Afghanistan. After the Taliban had fled Kabul, Mr Burton was on his way from Jalalabad to the Afghan capital when the car he was travelling in with three other journalists was pulled over by an armed gang of about 12 men. Along with his travelling companions, Mr Burton was shot dead by the side of the road. The man who allegedly led that gang, Mahmood Zar Jan, has been shot by Afghan police in the town...

The president of a group representing reporters worldwide is accusing U.S. soldiers of committing atrocities without offering any evidence to back the charge up. Appearing in St. Louis on Friday, Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley complained: "What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there’s not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq.” In case anyone missed the point, Foley restated her allegation: "They target and kill journalists…uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like...

Guild Chief Under Fire for Comments About Attacks on Journalists in Iraq By Joe Strupp Published: May 19, 2005 4:40 PM ET NEW YORK Linda Foley, national president of The Newspaper Guild, drew strong criticism today from some conservative groups for comments she made last Friday about the killing of journalists in Iraq. Foley said, among other things, that she was angry that there was "not more outrage about the number and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq. I think it's just a scandal." The backlash became so severe...

New York (AP) -- Christiane Amanpour, television's best-known international correspondent, said Thursday she's ending her part-time stint at CBS'"60 Minutes" because the arrangement had "run its course." Amanpour is continuing as chief international correspondent for CNN. She had been contributing to "60 Minutes" since 1996, usually four or five stories a year. This season she's done two: a profile of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, and a story about how the U.S. military sent a psychology unit to Iraq to help deal with battle fatigue. The arrangement with "60 Minutes""allowed me to report in-depth international stories for a large and important...

We spent 10 months in Iraq, working on a story, understanding who the people are who are fighting, why they fight, what their fundamental beliefs are, when they started, what kinds of backgrounds they come from, what education, jobs they have. Were they former military, are they Iraqi or foreign? Are they part of al-Qaida? What we came up with is a story in itself, and one that Vanity Fair ran in July 2004 with my text and pictures. [My colleague Steve Connors] shot a documentary film that is still waiting to find a home. But the basic point for...

The recent photo of U.S. Army Major Mark Bieger cradling a wounded Iraqi girl in his arms is one of those indelible images that puncture the often impenetrable fog of the war at the geo-strategic level. (For the story of the photo click here http://komotv.com/news/story.asp?ID=36687). This powerful photo contrasts with the negative media portrayals riveted into our minds about the Viet Nam War. One memorable Viet Nam war photo is the picture of children fleeing down a road from where a napalm bomb was dropped by the South Vietnamese Air Force on the village of Trang Bang where Viet Cong...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A television cameraman working for The Associated Press was killed Saturday when gunfire broke out after an explosion in the northern city of Mosul. An AP photographer was wounded in the same incident. AP identified the victims as Associated Press Television News cameraman Saleh Ibrahim and photographer Mohamed Ibrahim, no relation to the deceased. Saleh Ibrahim was in his early 30s and was a father of five. The circumstances of the death and injury remained unclear. "We are grief-stricken at the news of Saleh Ibrahim's death," said AP President and CEO Tom Curley. "His fervent dedication...

Iraqi police have detained a Reuters Television cameraman, Nabil Hussein for more than 24 hours in the northern city of Mosul, according to the latest Reuters report. Police hasn’t explained the reason for his detention yet.

BBC Correspondent gives his first interview

MUM'S THE WORD NILES -- Long before correspondents were covering the war in Iraq, Ernie Pyle was entrenched with American troops in Europe and the South Pacific during World War II, telling their stories as only he could. The trail-blazing reporter from Dana, Ind., captivated Americans with his folksy style. He was just as popular with servicemen, who ate with him on the front lines and viewed him as one of their own. He died in the same manner as many of those he wrote about, succumbing to the burst of a Japanese machine gun on the small island of...

Cameraman for CBS Wounded by U.S. Troops in Iraq 18 minutes ago World - Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Iraqi freelance cameraman who works for CBS News was shot and wounded on Tuesday in northern Iraq by U.S. troops who mistook his camera for a weapon, the U.S. military and CBS News said. The cameraman and reporter suffered minor injuries when he was shot while covering a firefight for CBS in Mosul, CBS News said. It asked that the man's name not be reported for his protection. The U.S. military said in a statement from Mosul released at the...

Reported a few moments ago on CNN. This is the cameraman who was shot in the leg...I think they said it happened last week. The camerman was apparently standing next to an insurgent. The evildoer was killed and our military reportedly mistook the camera for a weapon, firing on the cameraman and wounding him. He was taken to the hospital and was due to be released this afternoon. But now the U.S. military has detained him based on material found in his camera. It appears he was with the terrorists during the planning of their attack. I'm glad to see...

CBS Cameraman Shot By US Troops Under Arrest Troops believe he was working for insurgents, not just covering them as reporter. Just announced on CNN. Developing...

Don't Let U.S. Soldiers get Railroaded 3/27/05 By Defendingliberty Sgt Shawn Gibson, Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment. Who is he? He is the soldier that fired the tank round that hit the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad 4/8/03 killing two journalists . Amy Goodman’s Democracynow http://www.democracynow.org/ is pimping the theory that this was a war crime with an “Un-embed the Media Tour” 1 featuring Phil Donahue and others. The usual anti-war suspects are calling this “Murder “ and a “War Crime”. The brother of Spanish journalists (Jose Couso) killed in the attack will be taking his case to the...

Eason Jordan, a senior executive at CNN who was responsible for coordinating the cable network's Iraq coverage, resigned abruptly last night, citing a journalistic tempest he touched off during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month in which he appeared to suggest that United States troops were targeting and killing journalists. Though no transcript of Mr. Jordan's remarks at Davos on Jan. 27 has been released, the panel's moderator, David Gergen, editor at large of U.S. News & World Report, said in an interview last night that Mr. Jordan had initially spoken of...

Journalists Killed in Iraq - The Core Issues Posted from the U.S. Since I first posted the story, "Do US Troops Target Journalists in Iraq?" last week from the WEF 2005 in Davos, there has been a fast growing interest in what really is a bundle of interconnected, complex issues. I was very glad to see the post "Eason Jordan clarifies comments" by Rebecca MacKinnon. Eason's voice in this discussion is a very important one, and it should be heard. But I would like to point out that the substance of the issues raised here, as well as the posts...

At a discussion moderated by David R. Gergen, the Director for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, the concept of truth, fairness, and balance in the news was weighed against corporate profit interest, the need for ratings, and how the media can affect democracy. The panel included Richard Sambrook, the worldwide director of BBC radio, U.S. Congressman Barney Frank, Abdullah Abdullah, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, and Eason Jordan, Chief News Executive of CNN. The audience was a mix of journalists, WEF attendees (many from Arab countries), and a US Senator from Connecticut, Chris...

The following report on journalists killed on duty was released today by Reporters Without Borders: In 2004: -- 53 journalists and 15 media assistants were killed-- at least 907 journalists were arrested-- 1,146 were attacked or threatened-- at least 622 media were censoredIn 2003:-- 40 journalists and 2 media assistants were killed-- at least 766 journalists were arrested-- 1,460 were attacked or threatened-- at least 501 media censored On January 1, 2005-- 107 journalists and 70 cyber-dissidents were in prison around the world The Deadliest Year in a Decade At least 53 journalists were killed in 2004 for doing their...