The Association for Military Journalists
By Don North
They risk injury and death while also struggling against those who would censor their truth. It is often a frustrating profession and one that can destroy its best and bravest, which brings us to the tragic story of Paul Morton, a World War II correspondent for the Toronto Star. [Read more...]
The reunion of veteran Vietnam War era reporters, 35 years after the end of the war. Scenes show reporters visiting the Cu Chi tunnels on April 29, 2010 and scenes of the group on a lunchtime Saigon River cruise on April 30.
The reporters who call themselves Vietnam “Old Hacks” were joined by a group of journalism students from the University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Center. Among veteran journalists seen in this video are Carl Robinson (group leader) Neal Ulevich, Tim Page, Simon Dring, Peter Arnett, MRE Vice President Don North, Don Kirk, Mike Morrow and Nick Ut. Among the students seen in this video are Phillippa Stewart from the UK, Deirdre Wang Morris from Canada, Zela Chin from the United States, Li Li from China, and Carmen Ng from Hong Kong.
In 1983, war correspondent Don North went behind the guerilla lines in El Salvador to spend two months in Guazapa, one of the bloodiest battlegrounds of the civil war. Out of that experience came the revealing documentary “Guazapa: Yesterday’s Enemies” which shows the world the real civilian costs of that conflict. [Read more...]
