Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: February 2012 Archives

Tributes to Marie Colvin, Sunday Times correspondent killed in Syria

on February 22, 2012 4:27 PM

The Sunday Times correspondent, Marie Colvin, was killed in Syria on Wednesday morning. She died after a makeshift media centre in Homs came under attack from Syrian forces. French photographer Rémi Ochlik was also killed.Colvin and Ochlik died the day......more

"Welcome to Syria": Embedding with 'citizen journalists'

on February 9, 2012 10:18 AM

This Al Jazeera English report on Syria's citizen journalists is interesting.  When people in the media industry talk about "embedded journalists" they usually mean journalists embedding with military units. It is, of course, possible to 'embed' with other people or organisations......more

Social media from the front line

on February 2, 2012 11:50 AM

Major Paul Smyth is one of the people responsible for changing the Ministry of Defence's approach to social media particularly in the context of front line operations. I've spoken to him previously for the Frontline Club about his Frontline bloggers......more