From war, about 1,000,0001 2 iraqis had recently come across the border. It was the last open border between iraq and any other country, these people were largely the professional class and tended to be doctors, lawyers, novelists, filmmakers, engineers, people who were running from the chaos that followed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the civil war that began. I was there because i felt as if the kind of reporting i was reading tended to be battle reporting, if there was any kind of close detailed reporting it was on the experiences of soldiers, military maneuvers and that sort of thing and that is valid and valuable but there seem to be great missing piece which is the people who experienced war in the modern era tend to be civilians. Now that we dont have a frontline warfare situation anymore, the kind of work i do is not daily news reporting. I dont tend to go in and out of places quickly, i dont like to immerse myself in situations, sometimes this is slow journalism, the slo
Hi everyone i am carolyn greer, the producer of the brooklyn book festival with my colleague ms. Koch. We are in our 12th year this season and so delighted to have all of the fabulous authors participating. This year we had a very special circumstance with this particular program. Which is very important and very compelling on the subject of refugees. We decided to go in a different direction and do it from reporters. Telling from their insight and experiences in the field. And what happened is actually some reporters that we were having come got stuck on current assignment in the field. For instance patrick kane was going to come in his book is quite wonderful and he cannot be here today. And Oscar Martinez in san salvador is doing an investigative report right now. And as of yesterday could not make it out of the country to be here. We are fortunate though to have a very nuanced and experienced reporter Deborah Campbell, with her book. And we have lauren wolf. We hope that you will e
Quite wonderful and he cannot be here today. And Oscar Martinez in san salvador is doing an investigative report right now. And as of yesterday could not make it out of the country to be here. We are fortunate though to have a very nuanced and experienced reporter Deborah Campbell, with her book. And we have lauren wolf. We hope that you will enjoy all the programming on cspan booktv live from brooklyn book festival today. Just keep reading. Here, a few more people. I just want to start off by saying first of all good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. I am lauren wolf. I will tell you about myself in a minute. Before we begin i want to let you know that books by deborah, you can purchase them from barnes and noble and of course all over the city. Also there is a booth that you can purchase it. Immediately after this festival deborah will be signing her book at the table h adjacent to this building. Before i introduce deborah, i am very excited to be here because refugees reporting i
Here, a few more people. I just want to start off by saying first of all good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. I am lauren wolf. I will tell you about myself in a minute. Before we begin i want to let you know that books by deborah, you can purchase them from barnes and noble and of course all over the city. Also there is a booth that you can purchase it. Immediately after this festival deborah will be signing her book at the table h adjacent to this building. Before i introduce deborah, i am very excited to be here because refugees reporting is something i do regularly. I feel it is the least understood and well reported area in journalism whenever there is a lot of surface reporting which is why i am so excited to have deborah here. I am an economist of Foreign Policy magazine. I run a nonprofit Journalism Project about helping women under siege. In the red for the guardian in a number of other places. My refugee coverage has been in all, the countries surrounding syria because u
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Please to the supporters stay calm, do not argue with people, just keep up the great support. First at 10 00 oclock another late night at the Montgomery County courthouse Comedian Bill Cosby thanking the jury and his supporters as he leaves for the night. The jury has called it quits for now. Still no verdict. Im dawn timmeney. Im brad sattin. Chris oconnell with the night off tonight. Jurors have been deliberating for more than 50 hours. Theyll be back at it again starting tomorrow morning. Let us get straight to our dave kinchen hes been at the Montgomery County courthouse in norristown all day today. Dave, looks like well have to wait yet another day. After whirlwind day today. Bill cosby leaving court to fired up crowd. He issued a message asking for calm much listen. I just want to wish all of the fathers a happy fathers day and i want to thank the jury for their long days, their honest work individually. I also w