the middle east based broadcaster al jazeera has accused the israeli military of deliberately targeting journalists after one of its best known correspondents was shot dead in the occupied west bank. shireen abu akleh died from a bullet wound to the head, while covering an israeli army raid on a refugee camp. israel s prime minister has denied thatjournalists were targeted, and accused palestinians of firing the fatal shot. 0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman reports from the west bank. gunfire. dawn injenin refugee camp. and the depressingly familiar echo of gunfire. and yet another death. this time, that of a well known palestinian journalist. a storyteller silenced. shireen abu akleh was a household name to millions, one of the best known women reporters, explaining the conflict and occupation to a
Three renowned female war correspondents gathered at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa on April 22, 2022 to speak to students and faculty about their role in covering the Vietnam
they did it was up to age six. dozens of media centres, especially those where there were women journalists, were completely shut down. men were told to grow long beard, music was banned. what has happened in kabul in recent days is quite different. female presenters on air, women reporters in the streets, this calm, reassuring press conference, but it is still early days. afghans will be wary, they know these are their new rulers. like you in capitals around the world, london, new york, washington, diplomats are going to be listening to what the taliban are saying. how do you think they should react? thea;r do you think they should react? they will have to do you think they should react? they will have to roll do you think they should react? they will have to roll back do you think they should react? they will have to roll back a do you think they should react? tia: will have to roll back a bit. because for many months now they have been warning the taliban that a military vict
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Marines recovering a dead comrade while under fire in South Vietnam. Photographer Catherine LeRoy holds cameras behind them.Larry Burrows / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty
In 1966, a young American journalist named Frances FitzGerald began publishing articles from South Vietnam in leading magazines, including this one. She was the unlikeliest of war correspondents born into immense privilege, a daughter of the high-WASP ascendancy. Her father, Desmond FitzGerald, was a top CIA official; her mother, Marietta Tree, a socialite and liberal activist. FitzGerald was raised with servants and horses, and she had to fend off advances from the likes of Adlai Stevenson (her mother’s lover) and Henry Kissinger. Her family contacts got her through the door of feature jou