Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: June 2008 Archives

Iraqi blogs (Last of Iraqis and Healing Iraq) and interestingly a US-funded Arab radio station are reporting news of a shooting at an Iraqi school. They say at least four students were wounded when the guards of Iraq's Education Minister,......more

LT G, author of Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal, says he will have to stop updating his milblog with immediate effect. In a post entitled 'Tactical Pause', LT G explains that although he 'committed no OPSEC violations', 'extenuating circumstances' meant......more

"Meanwhile, for journalists in many countries, any distinction between peace and wartime reporting has become meaningless. If they're investigating corruption or powerful vested interests, drug dealing or organised crime, they're always on the frontline." Kate Allen, The Director of Amnesty......more

I thought I'd take Arianna Huffington's advice and point you to someone claiming to be giving the facts on the ground in Iraq. Dr Mohammed blogs at Last of Iraqis. He's been blogging about his life as a dentist in......more

Just back from listening to Arianna Huffington, the founder of the Huffington Post, at the BBC. In between some interesting comments on the American election and her citizen journalism project, ‘Off the Bus’, she thought she’d spend a bit of......more

More bloggers are being arrested by repressive regimes than ever before according to this article in The Guardian. The report that the article is based on can be found here. It says that collectively bloggers have served 940 months in......more

As I've discussed previously finding a British military blogger updating from Afghanistan or Iraq is a difficult task. This is about the best I can find at the moment. Lachlan MacNeil is section commander of Section 1, 2 Platoon, A......more

Always test your equipment before leaving base. [video:youtube:Ue1NnjXxzNo]......more

I try to read a fair few blogs so every now and then it's refreshing not to have to trawl through pages and pages of writing. Military Motivator is one of the blogs I like 'looking at' rather than reading.......more

World Have Your Say, a BBC World Service radio programme, is going to be discussing when and whether a reporter should help the suffering subjects of their news stories. Though not exactly a new topic, the idea for the debate,......more