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The special joint event organised by the Frontline Club and the BBC Arabic Service brought together some of the key players, journalists and experts to discuss what has taken place in Egypt over the last few months. The first half......more

I'm afraid I haven't been able to follow events in Tunisia and Egypt as closely as I would have liked as I was determined to enjoy an overdue holiday and a break from computer screens. And my mission was largely......more

The Small Wars Journal informs us that the US Army is converting the contents of their field manuals into wiki format allowing soldiers to update military doctrine. (It's wikipedia for the Army.)Lt Gen William Caldwell, a leader in the use......more

The Small Wars Journal has put together a collection of thoughts on the impact of new media on the way the US military has fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well worth bookmarking, reading, and re-reading. I was going to pick......more

Just flagging up a book to watch out for later this year.Digital War Reporting is being written by Stuart Allan and Donald Matheson, two authors I've already cited on numerous occasions in my PhD.In the book they explore 'how new......more

The other day I was at a panel discussion on how the novelist should approach political violence. I blogged a review on behalf of the Complex Terrain Laboratory.......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

Colby Buzzell served with the US Infantry in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003-4. He’s one of the more successful US milbloggers and in an article for the San Francisco Chronicle he has revealed that he has been called up for......more

Recently, the Long War Journal published an interview with 'General Hamed', who commands a number of Iraqi policemen in Baghdad. In the interview, General Hamed recognises that the effectiveness of both the Iraqi Army (IA) and the Iraqi Police (IP)......more

Listening to and engaging with your media-savvy audience is a key component of the new journalistic landscape. But remember, you can't please everybody.......more