Getting the story out of South Ossetia

The Press Gazette does a good job of telling us how the British press got the story out of South Ossetia at the same time most of them were heavily focussed on what was going on in Beijing. Listed in among the ranks of foreign correspondents who were first on the scene are Frontline Club regulars, Adrian Blomfield and Kim Sengupta,

The Independent claimed to have the first two newspaper correspondents in the worst-hit area of Tskhinvali in South Ossetia, Kim Sengupta and Sean Walker…. Telegraph Moscow correspondent Adrian Bloomfield travelled to Georgia in time to file copy from the front line for Saturday’s paper. link