Reporting War And Conflict

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyight Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
	Notes
1. Risk and war journalism
	The risk society
	Media and the risk society
	Risk and everyday life
	Risk and journalism
	Risk and the war correspondent
	Notes
2. Bearing witness: Morality, risk and war reporting
	Eyewitnessing
	‘I’ witnessing
	Witnessing and the Second World War
	Challenges to witnessing
	Witnessing the post-war world
	Cold War witnessing
	Modern witnessing
	Journalism of attachment
	Digital witnessing
	Testifying
	Notes
3. Organisational and occupational risks and war reporting
	Economic logic
	Changing nature of freelancing
	Commercialism and editorial control
	Collectivisation of war reporting
	Sources and security
	Objectivity
4. Technology and risk management: Telegraph, telex and Twitter
	Culture of distance
	Telegraphing risks
	Making reporting easier
	Broadcasting risk
	Working digitally
	Social media revolution
	Note
5. The media on the battlefield: Risk and embedding
	Embedding
	Fog of war
	Pressure from above
	Censorship and self-censorship
	Technology, risk and embedding
	Real or reality war
	Notes
6. Asymmetrical risk: Reporting post-war Iraq
	Blogging war
	Different voices and pictures
	Access
	Fixers
	Distant war, distant reporting
7. Risk and reporting new forms of war and conflict
	Hybrid warfare
	Fuelling fear
	Hybrid information war
	Terrorism
	Speed and liveness
	Outsourced war
	Special Forces
	Notes
8. Risk and the reporting of death, dying and the casualties of war
	The power of the image
	Not showing death
	Being there
	What to show
	Body counts
	Notes
9. Gender, risk and war reporting
	Attitudes to women reporting war
	Political economy of women war reporters
	Women war correspondents at home
	Blending in
	When gender becomes an issue
	Advantages
	Sources and women war reporters
	Digital harassment
	Gendered war journalism
	Notes
References
Index