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The Survival Mode of Reporting From a War Zone

‘Our generation is more vocal about trauma we experience than others have been. It can't be avoided when you see this much violence and senseless death.’
June 15, 2006
Farnaz Fassihi

When Bearing Witness Overrides a Reporter’s Fear

‘… courage is not me, a clunky reporter clutching a notebook and treading on people’s lives, trying to get them to open up their souls.’
June 15, 2006
Janine di Giovanni

Witnessing War to Send Its Images Home

‘What of our colleagues who have trauma engraved on their psyches?’
June 15, 2006
Santiago Lyon

War Teaches Lessons About Fear and Courage

‘In war zones, I would learn about another feeling, one I have yet to define but seems the opposite of fear ….’
June 15, 2006
Cheryl Diaz Meyer

Assessing the Risks Reporters in Iraq Confront

‘I don’t believe in the journalist as a hero.’
June 15, 2006
John Burns

Going to Tell What Others Have Forgotten

A war correspondent seeks out people who live in dangerous war zones to tell their stories and finds that ‘by sharing the fear it helps a lot.’
June 15, 2006
Anne Nivat

Courage Emerges From the Work Journalists Do

‘… journalists’ courage needs a source, and so far I have recognized three such sources: insanity, lack of any clue, ideals.’
June 15, 2006
Aida Cerkez-Robinson

A Difficult Journey From Repression to Democracy

Brave journalists who challenge authoritarian regimes often ‘enter a postauthoritarian era full of compromises and new repressions.’
June 15, 2006
Ann Cooper

Truth in the Crossfire

In a brutal attack, ‘my truth … was dealt a mortal wound.’
June 15, 2006
Jineth Bedoya Lima

U.S. Newspapers Decide Which Images of the Fallujah Killings to Publish

Cheering Iraqis with burning SUV. Photo by Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images.Akron Beacon JournalAnchorage Daily News (cropped)The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThe Boston GlobeChicago Sun-TimesThe (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (cropped)The Columbus DispatchDaily News of Los AngelesThe…
June 15, 2004
David D. Perlmutter