• ISBN13: 9780745333182
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: February 20, 2016
• Pages: 288
• Original Price: GBP 17.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 352 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies

The War Correspondent looks at the role of the war reporter today: the attractions and the risks of the job; the challenge of objectivity and impartiality in the war zone; the danger of journalistic independence being compromised by military control, censorship, and public relations; as well as the commercial and technological pressures of an intensely concentrated, competitive news media environment. This new edition substantially updates the original, examining the "war on terror" framework that dominated the first decade of the twenty-century, and features interviews with prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Mary Dvesky, and Alex Thomson.

McLaughlin, Greg: -

Greg McLaughlin is senior lecturer in media and journalism at the University of Ulster. He is author, with Stephen Baker, of The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process and The British Media and Bloody Sunday.