Afghanistan, War and the Media

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Arima Publishing

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491_9781845494445

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Afghanistan, War and the Media: Deadlines and Frontlines explores the journalism coming out of the current Afghan war from the frontline and from the greater comfort of the library. It is an unusual hybrid: the testimony of some of the best frontline correspondents of our era, much of it placed in appropriate historical contexts, alongside detailed academic analysis - and much more. Contributors include:Indra Adnan, Director of the Soft Power Network, AustraliaWill Barton, Senior Lecturer, Coventry School of Art and DesignOliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor, Bowling Green State University, Ohio Alex Crawford, Foreign Correspondent, Sky NewsDavid Cromwell and David Edwards, Media LensCorinne Fowler, Lecturer, Leicester UniversityHanan Habibzai, freelance journalist covering Afghan-related issuesDavid Hayward, Head of the Journalism Programme for the BBC College of JournalismPhillip Knightley, author of the seminal history of war correspondentsAllan Little, Special Correspondent with the BBCTim Luckhurst, Professor of Journalism, University of KentAlpaslan Özerdem, Professor, Coventry UniversityJake Lynch, University of Sydney, Kevin Marsh, Executive Editor at the BBC College of JournalismDonald Matheson, Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New ZealandAnnabel McGoldrick, peace journalism theorist and activistStuart Ramsay, Sky News Chief CorrespondentVaughan Smith, independent video journalist, founder of the Frontline Club Alex Thomson, Chief Correspondent, Channel Four NewsJohn Tulloch, Professor of Journalism, University of LincolnThis book allows some of our leading practitioners of war reporting to have their say. The commentators also have theirs. It is a sobering read, to put it mildly.Huw Edwards, presenter of BBC News at Ten

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