The MRE is now taking submissions for the 2011 Military Reporters and Editors Association Journalism Awards for print, online, photography, radio, or video produced in 2010. [Read more...]
Commemoration Commission agrees to strike Nixon quote
March 17, 2011 By
MRE Vice President Don North sent a letter on behalf of the organization to the Vietnam War Commemoration Program Office in January 2011. His letter focused on the quote found on the commemoration’s website by President Richard M. Nixon “No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam war. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” [Read more...]
Mulholland to speak on Special Operations
February 3, 2011 By
Lt. Gen. John F. Mulholland, commanding general, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, will present “Army Special Operations: Striving and Structuring to Meet Persistent Global Security Demands” at the Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare breakfast. [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...]
Renowned lensman, Joao Silva, undergoing multiple operations
November 18, 2010 By
Last month, New York Times-contracted photographer João Silva stepped on a landmine near the southern Afghan town of Arghandab. Silva has spent three weeks in intensive care—he is currently being treated at Walter Reed—and has lost both of his legs below the knee. [Read more...]
Hasan hearing ends after 4 minutes
November 16, 2010 By
by Sig Christenson
San Antonio Express-News and MRE board member
FORT HOOD — Prosecutors took nine days and 56 witnesses to finish their part of an evidentiary hearing for an Army psychiatrist charged with a shooting spree one year ago, but the defense took just four minutes. [Read more...]
MRE president recognized by DAV for her stories on burn pits
October 28, 2010 By
Times News Service reporter Kelly Kennedy is responsible for bringing the story of toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan to light. For her leadership and extensive coverage of military and veterans health care and benefits issues, she was recognized with the Disabled American Veterans‘ 2010 Bugle Award. [Read more...]
2010 MRE Conference agenda set
October 3, 2010 By
Fighting On All Fronts: Covering Combat and Its Aftermath
Nov. 4-5, 2010
Co-Sponsors: Medill National Security Journalism Initiative and National Institute of Military Justice
Location: Medill School of Journalism Washington Bureau and American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. [Read more...]
War correspondents’ dinner is Nov. 5
October 2, 2010 By
War Correspondents’ Dinner will be at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5 at the Old Ebbitt Grill, on 15th between G and I Streets, close to Metro Center in Washington, D.C. [Read more...]
