Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: March 2010 Archives

Посмотреть на Яндекс.Фотках (Link to Tatiana Krasnova's album) Two female suicide bombers were believed to be responsible for the deaths of 38 commuters in Moscow at rush hour this morning. Russian officials say that 60 people were also injured in......more

A few bits and pieces I've spotted recently:1. Leveraging New Media (pdf):A US military report on the Israeli Defence Force's use of new media in the conflict in Gaza re-published in the Australian Army Journal. It's from the middle of......more

Yesterday, I travelled up to Coventry for a conversation about embedded journalism in Afghanistan. It was hosted by Coventry University and the BBC's College of Journalism.I'm not sure I ever really understood the question that was supposed to frame......more

Cameraman Stuart Webb describes his experience of being on patrol with the Coldstream Guards in Afghanistan. He was working for Channel 4 News with Alex Thomson. The pair came under fire as they moved along a ditch with the Guards.........more

A Georgian TV channel caused panic at the weekend after a mock up news report suggested Russian troops had invaded the country and President Saakashvili had been killed. Many viewers had missed a warning that went out before the broadcast.......more

Fighting the Taliban in Marjah, Afghanistan.There was an interesting little sub-plot in this article in The Times about the aim of protecting and winning over the population in a counterinsurgency operation. On the one hand these US Marines were being......more

Independent journalist Michael Yon, whose vivid dispatches from Frontline military embeds have proved popular both in the United States and Britain, has said that a return to covering British forces in Afghanistan later in the year is a strong possibility.A......more

As of last Friday, all US servicemen have been able to update social networks like Twitter and Facebook from non-classified military network computers.The announcement by the Department of Defense is the first time a single policy has been used across......more