The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism is taking applications for its next fellowship. It provide stipends to journalists from the United States, Romania, and South Africa to report on topics related to mental health or mental illnesses. [Read more...]
Veteran war reporters rip Limbaugh on detained reporter comments
February 4, 2011 By
By Joe Strupp
Media Matters for America
(Three MRE members are quoted in this story.)
Rush Limbaugh’s dismissive comments about detained New York Times reporters in Cairo have drawn sharp criticism from several veteran war correspondents – including a longtime Times war reporter – as well as those who monitor journalist safety overseas. [Read more...]
Pentagon-sponsored website blames media for ‘misreporting’ Vietnam
January 19, 2011 By
January 18, 2011
Vietnam War Commemoration Program Office
2521 S. Clark St. Suite 650,
Arlington, VA. 22202
Dear Sir or Madam;
At the top of the home page of your website you have prominently displayed a quote by President Richard Nixon.
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam war. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” New York Times, March 28, 1985.
It would appear to be a keynote statement designed to characterize your attitude to the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. [Read more...]
The Record Keeper
December 2, 2010 By
MRE member Carol Rosenberg owns the Guantánamo beat
On January 11, 2002, the first twenty detainees landed at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. Their arrival was witnessed by a cluster of journalists who stood on a hill 400 yards from the runway. One of them was Carol Rosenberg, a military-affairs reporter for The Miami Herald. She helped write the pool report quoted above. [Read more...]
Interviewing military personnel when they are overseas
November 20, 2010 By
Interviewing military personnel deployed overseas is a specialized task for a journalist, requiring scrupulous preparation, detailed understanding of the realities of life in the field and sensitivity to the constraints under which soldiers operate. It also requires sensitivity to the needs and issues of military families waiting out their loved ones’ deployment. [Read more...]
A view from the stage of the stresses war reporters face
November 20, 2010 By
In a revealing interview broadcast Nov. 19 on New York public radio station WNYC, actors Laura Linney and Brian D’Arcy James talked with Leonard Lopate about how they came to understand the multiple stresses faced by journalists in conflict zones. And not all of those stresses come from simply witnessing traumatic events. [Read more...]
Dealing with the unseen scars of war
November 9, 2010 By
by Alex Quade
Special to CNN, and MRE member
One soldier’s experience represents what many troops and their families say they are going through as they try to reintegrate with unseen injuries at a time of Department of Defense budget cuts, health care industry changes and political upheaval. [Read more...]
Defense spokesman pledges on-the-record briefings, but some will remain on background
November 6, 2010 By
By Sarah Chacko
Medill News Service
WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense’s top spokesman assured reporters that the Pentagon would provide as many on-the-record briefings as possible on military issues, but that some policy issues will have to remain on background. [Read more...]
Iraq War deadly — for journalists
October 31, 2010 By
The second U.S. war with Iraq was the most lethal for journalists since World War II.
And that’s “more than those killed during 20 years of the Vietnam War or the civil war in Algeria” says Reporters Without Borders. [Read more...]
Q & A: War photographer Moises Saman
October 27, 2010 By
“If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation”
Freelance photographer Moises Saman’s pictures from Iraq made the cover of The New York Times both days last weekend. [Read more...]
