Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 280
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-3060-7 • Paperback • October 2004 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Judith Sylvester is associate professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. Suzanne Huffman is associate professor of journalism and broadcast journalism sequence head at Texas Christian University.
Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Retrospective
Chapter 3 Walter Cronkite, CBS
Chapter 4 Bob Schieffer, CBS
Chapter 5 Joe Galloway, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Chapter 6 Louis A. Day, 199th Light Infantry Brigade
Chapter 7 Neal Conan, NPR
Part 8 Managing the War: The Military
Chapter 9 What Will We Do with 600 Journalists?
Chapter 10 Brian Whitman, Department of Defense
Chapter 11 Major Tim Blair, Department of Defense
Part 12 Managing the War: The Media
Chapter 13 Eason Jordon, CNN
Chapter 14 Bruce Conover, CNN
Chapter 15 Earl Casey, CNN
Chapter 16 Bruce Drake, NPR
Chapter 17 Leonard Apcar, NYTimes.com
Chapter 18 Maria C. Thomas, NPR Online
Chapter 19 Gerry Barker and Chris Kelley, Belo Interactive
Part 20 Visual Journalists
Chapter 21 Cheryl Diaz Meyer, The Dallas Morning News
Chapter 22 Jerome Delay, Associated Press
Chapter 23 Rich Johnson, Detroit Free Press
Part 24 Print Journalists
Chapter 25 Joseph Giordono, Stars and Stripes
Chapter 26 Jim Landers, The Dallas Morning News
Chapter 27 Ed Timms, The Dallas Morning News
Part 28 Television Journalists
Chapter 29 Sarah Dodd, KTVT-TV (CBS)
Chapter 30 Ken Kalthoff, KXAS-TV (NBC5)
Chapter 31 Richard Ray, KDFW-TV (FOX)
Chapter 32 Byron Harris, WFAA-TV (ABC)
Chapter 33 Byron Pitts, CBS
Chapter 34 Jim Axelrod, CBS
Chapter 35 Bill Owens, CBS/60 Minutes II
Part 36 Radio Journalists
Chapter 37 Ivan Watson, NPR
Chapter 38 Anne Garrels, NPR
Part 39 Competition and Complaints
Chapter 40 The 'Most' War
Part 41 Conclusion
Chapter 42 Embeds versus Unilaterals
Part 43 Appendixes
This is a very useful study of a different kind of war correspondent-one who works from the inside, raising both reporting opportunities, but also problems. The authors do a good job dealing with both.
— Communication Booknotes Quarterly
Reporting from the Front is an invaluable resource for all who study wartime journalism. Judith Sylvester and Suzanne Huffman do a fine reporting job themselves, presenting lesson-filled stories from those who cover the battlefield and those who manage the news.
— Philip Seib, University of Southern California
Describing a different kind of war correspondent—one who does work from the inside—this useful study does a good job of raising issues about the opportunities and the problems inherent in this kind of reporting. Highly recommended.
— Choice Reviews
Reporting from the Front provides a comprehensive and fascinating series of first-person, behind-the-scenes accounts of media coverage during the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
— Elliot Jaspin, Cox Newspapers
—Features 30 interviews with defense officials, journalists, and media managers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Cheryl Diaz Meyer; AP's 2003 Photographer of the Year Jerome Delay; embed program managers Brian Whitman and Major Tim Blair;and others from CNN, NPR, NYTimes.com, Knight Ridder, The Dallas Morning News, CBS, and local affiliates for all the major networks.
—Explores the journalists' survival training from the military and private companies, the logistics of mobile andinternational news operations, the technologies used, and how media outlets worked together.
—Presents a retrospective on war and conflict coverage—from World War II and Vietnam to the Persian Gulf War and conflicts in Sri Lanka, East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, and elsewhere—through the personal experiences of Walter Cronkite, Bob Schieffer, and other top foreign correspondents.
—Considers ethical questions in covering war, such as whether embedded journalists should be armed and if it is ever acceptable to give out privileged information to other parties in order to get a scoop.
—Looks at media competition and complaints about coverage or media-military interactions—reporters who broke the rules, circulation of disturbing or altered images, stor