Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: May 2009 Archives

Using Google Earth (or Maps) as a news tool isn't exactly new. But mapping all the coalition casualties during the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq is a monumental effort.It's the work of Sean Askay, a Google employee. He used......more

Media140 brought together twitterers (and maybe some people who aren't on Twitter) to talk about the impact of everyone's favourite 140 character tool on news journalism.Using Twitter to do journalismWe learnt what most people know if they've been using Twitter......more

Tomorrow, I'll be heading along to Media140. It's a conference that will look at the impact of Twitter and other social media tools on news coverage and journalistic practice. I seem to be pretty interested in this sort of stuff.......more

Earlier today, I was alerted to the ISAFmedia Twitter feed by my Frontline colleague, Alex Strick van Linschoten.I contacted ISAF, (NATO's multinational International Security Assistance Force fighting in Afghanistan) and they confirmed that the Twitter feed is an official ISAF......more

BBC Arabic Correspondent, Shahdi Al Kashif, reported from Gaza during the Israeli military attack at the turn of the year. On Wednesday, he talked to a small group of BBC journalists about the challenges he faced. Below I've paraphrased a......more

 Lt-General Stanley McChrystal (right) addresses a press briefing on Iraq in 2003. Now he's in charge of US forces in Afghanistan. (Defenselink.mil) Bill and Bob "Based on Gates' announcement, it appears that it is a signal that field commanders will be......more

A few weeks ago, I was part of an interesting debate about the role of Twitter in a protest against the Communist Party's election in Moldova.I'd like to say that I think it has been a valuable exchange of ideas......more

A couple of weeks ago I was at the military blogging conference in Washington DC. (I decided to use the opportunity to spend some time travelling in Virginia and then I was straight onto a new media conference in......more