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Maximum fear for maximum profit: the Afghan security game
Of the thousands of expatriates living and working in Kabul, journalists are among the lucky few to enjoy freedom of movement as the security industry tightens control and boosts profits by exaggerating the prevailing threat.Private security firms earning billions of dollars in Afghanistan appear to be taking advantage of the...more
Frontline: reporting from the world's deadliest places
A newly revised and updated edition of Frontline by David Loyn was published this week. The acclaimed book chronicles the work of the Frontline news agency, founded by journalists Rory Peck, Peter Jouvenal, Vaughan Smith and Nicholas Della Casa. First published in 2005, the latest edition features a foreword from...more
Live tonight - Peter Beaumont on war reporting
Peter Beaumont drops by the Frontline Club tonight to discuss his latest book - The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict - and his life spent reporting from the frontlines of many wars. The Observer Foreign Affairs Editor has had a change of heart of late, see below,...more
Oliver Poole gets reverse culture shock
Oliver Poole, author of Into the Red Zone and Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent, talked to students in Oxford earlier this week. Snippets of his chat appear in Cherwell and he talks about that oddest of feelings of reverse culture shock felt by many war correspondents when they head back home,...more
From warzone to psychiatrist
Paul Watson's book Where war lives is reviewed on the Bloomberg site. Watson, who started out as a metro reporter on the Toronto Star, took his holidays in war zones. He ended up reporting from Eritrea, Angola, Somalia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan receiving the Pulitzer prize for his "Black Hawk...more
Women in war
UALR Public radio tells the stories of five women in five different wars. The audio broadcast begins with a female war reporter, Carolin Emcke is a war correspondent and the author of "Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter." She tells Steve Paulson that what war survivors ask...more
Chris Wattie talks Afghanistan
Chris Wattie, National Post senior national reporter and author of Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, The Taliban and the Battle that Saved Afghanistan, talks about time in Kandahar with Canadian soldiers, In an enlightening interview, Wattie describes his experience in combat with Canadian soldiers, and tells the stories that most...more
Addicted to danger
The Daily Mail publishes extracts from Ann Leslie's Killing My Own Snakes this week. The veteran foreign correspondent talks about the addiction to danger she sees in other war correspondents and which she has experienced herself, To be a professional war correspondent means, in my view, that you have to...more
Ugly of war
John D. McHugh, Frontline Club member and regular in these parts, has his latest short film from Afghanistan up on The Guardian website. He to a member of a the US army Medevac team about the day to day job of helping the wounded and the dying. John says...more
Into Danger
Katie Adie promotes her new book Into Danger, which was published yesterday, in The Telegraph. She discusses why people like her choose to go to war and other dangerous places to work, One of the questions I am frequently asked is: ''What is the most dangerous thing that's happened to...more
