Dispatches from Iraq
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November 09, 2007 06:00 PM
Reporting Iraq
A roundtable on the journalism of the war, featuring four professionals who covered it
Just after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, reporters could go almost anywhere and talk to almost anyone. Then, slowly, everything changed.
Columbia Journalism Review’s new book, Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It, explores that change through the eyes of the reporters, photographers, translators, and producers who have seen it up close....
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February 06, 2006 08:00 AM
In Iraq, the Untold Stories Pile Up, One by One by One
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - The fact is, with the press in Iraq stretched thin, the grinding, day-to-day reality of the war is essentially being forgotten.
This is the final part in a series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
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FALLUJAH, IRAQ -- When it was time for me to leave Echo Company and make my way back to Baghdad, and then home, Capt. Pinion arranged to have me catch a ride with the "Road Show" -- a weekly convoy... -
February 02, 2006 03:01 PM
Embedded with a Night Patrol in Fallujah
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - Curfew falls at 11 p.m. each night, after which anyone found out on the street is considered a target.
Part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
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FALLUJAH, IRAQ -- The curfew had not yet come into effect, but the streets were already deserted, the darkened windows of buildings staring vacantly into the night. We were on night patrol, rolling through the streets of Fallujah with two 7-ton trucks and... -
February 01, 2006 11:43 AM
On Patrol In a Tense Fallujah
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - No more than a minute after leaving the base, we swung a hard left and were bouncing down the streets of Fallujah, kicking up a dust storm in our wake.
Part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
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FALLUJAH, IRAQ -- A couple Marines came stomping through the door of the hootch where I was sleeping at about 4 a.m., body armor and weaponry clattering behind them as they climbed into their own bunks. They were back from one of Echo... -
January 30, 2006 05:27 PM
With Echo Company of the Second Marine Division
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - The "media tent" at Camp Fallujah may be nothing more than a couple of dusty bunk beds with muddy pillows, but the chow isn't half bad.
Part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
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FALLUJAH, IRAQ -- I was eager to leave Baghdad and embed with the Second Marine Division in Fallujah, but due to bad weather -- and then a sandstorm -- I ended up getting stuck another two nights at the Coalition Press Information Center... -
January 27, 2006 12:36 PM
A Dwindling Corps in a Volatile, Battered City
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - As media outlets pull out of Iraq, the journalists that remain are a hardened bunch, angry at their inability to move around - and becoming increasingly isolated.
Part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Among reporters who have been in and out of Iraq since the beginning of the war, there seems to be a kind of consensus that the summer of 2003 and, to a much lesser extent, part of 2004, was a... -
January 25, 2006 12:52 PM
"The Party's Pretty Much Over"
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Chivalry and black-framed glasses may fly in New York City, but it's a different game in Baghdad.
This is part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Chivalry and black-framed glasses may fly in New York City, but it's a different game in Baghdad.
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Two female reporters from the Los Angeles Times had graciously agreed to give me a lift from the International... -
January 20, 2006 11:11 AM
Getting Out of Baghdad Is As Hard As Getting In
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- For reporters, Iraq turns out to be a very small world.
Part of a continuing series reporting on the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Once I was off the chopper in the International Zone, a couple of soldiers from the Coalition Press Information Center (CPIC) swung around to pick me up to get my credentials. Within 30 minutes, I had a military-issue "press... -
January 19, 2006 10:49 AM
Neil Cavuto Doesn't Look Any Better from Iraq
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Camp Stryker is a place where travel plans go to die.
This is the third installment in a series of posts about the life of an embedded journalist in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Camp Stryker is a place where travel plans go to die.
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After waking in the late afternoon to the thunder of a steady downpour on the roof of my tent, I decided that... -
January 18, 2006 11:49 AM
Further Adventures in (Attempted) Embedding
"I hate how the media is covering this war," a Kellogg Brown & Root contractor at the Kuwait airport snarled when he found out I was a journalist.
This is part two of a series reporting from Iraq on how the press is doing its job.
KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT -- "I hate how the media is covering this war," a Kellogg Brown & Root contractor at the Kuwait airport snarled when he found out I was a journalist.
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January 17, 2006 11:25 AM
Kuwait, Coffee and C-130's
CJR Daily’s correspondent, on his way to Baghdad, gets a military-sanctioned tour of Kuwait City - including plenty of Starbucks franchises.
CJR Daily’s Paul McLeary is reporting from Iraq on how the press is doing its job there. This is his first dispatch in a series.
KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT -- In retrospect, after landing at Kuwait City airport, groggy from the daylong flight from New York, I probably wasn’t the best judge of my options.
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