War reporter Alex Quade was appointed to the MRE board of directors at the annual conference by new president Bryan Bender, filling a vacancy on the board.
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Alex Quade joins MRE board of directors
December 5, 2011 By
USAF to MRE: ‘We could and should have done better’ on Dover Mortuary Affairs story
December 5, 2011 By
The chief spokesman for the U.S. Air Force has acknowledged his office’s failure to properly inform the media last month about the mishandling of soldiers’ remains and said he has directed the public affairs office to review its procedures. [Read more...]
Joint Chiefs chairman: Don’t lose interest in us
November 21, 2011 By
By MRE board member Sig Christenson
San Antonio-Express News
The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, had a message for journalists at last week’s Millitary Reporters & Editors Conference in Arlington, Va. [Read more...]
Don North: Sixty-nine years after Dieppe truth is still a casualty
September 3, 2011 By
“If any question why we died, tell them because our fathers lied.”
Rudyard Kipling. Epitaphs of the war.
By Don North
MRE Vice President
The template for unashamed deceit of the news media in wartime is the disastrous raid on Dieppe Aug. 19, 1942. The controversy over the lessons learned at Dieppe continue to this day, perhaps proof that unless truthful, the “first rough draft of history” lives on without aggressive scholarship or journalism.
At the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario there is a citation on the wall of an official display; “Some insist that the lessons learned at Dieppe contributed to the success of later allied landings including Normandy. Others insist that the raid was poorly planned and an avoidable blunder.” It seems the Canadian preference is to “choose your own version of history on Dieppe.” [Read more...]
MRE member Sig Christenson: Suspect in bomb plot tied to post is indicted
August 14, 2011 By
AWOL soldier is facing three counts, and more could come.
By Sig Christenson
sigc@express-news.net
A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted an AWOL soldier in connection with a plot to strike GIs in the Killeen area. [Read more...]
MRE member Carl Prine: ‘Please do Pyle the honor of never emulating his World War II journalism’
August 14, 2011 By
August 3 marked the birthday of Earnest “Ernie” Pyle, born 111 years ago on a truck farm near Dana in my home state of Indiana. [Read more...]
Obituary: Jack Pulwers, a giant in journalism
April 3, 2011 By
By Don North
Distinguished journalist, author and military historian Jack Edward Pulwers died March 29, 2011 at Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, Va. of extended illness after congestive heart failure. [Read more...]
National Security Journalism Initiative launches project on U.S. Special Operations
March 15, 2011 By
Members of the U.S. Special Operations forces – the “rock stars of the military” — are the subject of an extensive report officially launched on the Web on March 14 by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. [Read more...]
When Veterans Come Home: A workshop in Philadelphia – April 1-2, 2011
March 14, 2011 By
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a heavy toll on American society, but no one has paid more dearly than returning veterans, their families and friends. In Pennsylvania alone, thousands of men and women return from war each year. [Read more...]
Sig Christenson: The link between deployments and suicides
February 20, 2011 By
Maybe an hour had passed since I filed our first blog on last Sunday’s story, “The War Within,” when a new report on military suicides came out. [Read more...]
