Suggested reading, viewing and listening

Web sites

Backpack journalism

Bill Gentile’s blog
http://billgentilebackpackjournalism.blogspot.com/

Country information

BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html

The CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Funding for international reporting

International Reporting Project
http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/

Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
http://www.pulitzercenter.org/


Health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s traveler’s health site wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx

World Health Organization
www.who.int/ith/en/

International media

Global Voices Online
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/

International Center for Journalists
www.icfj.org/

International Newspaper Linkswww.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm?mid=int
News Voyager
http://www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm?mid=int

Worldpress.org
http://www.worldpress.org/

World Net Daily
http://www.wnd.com/

Internet availability, filtering
OpenNet Initiative
http://opennet.net/

Languages

BBC Languages
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

Miscellaneous

American Citizens Abroad
http://www.aca.ch/joomla/index.php

Demotix citizen journalism/photo agency site
http://www.demotix.com/: You post your photos, they try to sell them, you split the take 50-50; you keep the copyright. Also offers opportunity to exchange posts with other members of the site.

http://www.danbaum.com/Nine_Lives/Blog/Blog.html - Writer Dan Baum’s blog on making a living as a writer.

http://www.theproposalfactory.com/ – Veteran writer Dan Baum’s site proposing to help you with proposals, and get you to read his articles and maybe buy his books. Includes a pdf of a successful proposal he wrote for the New Yorker.

http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2009/narrative_overview_intro.php?cat=0&media=1
The State of the News Media 2009: An Annual Report on American Journalism, Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism

New media

Editorsweblog.org http://www.editorsweblog.org/

International Symposium on Online Journalism
University of Texas at Austin
http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/

Knight Digital Media Center
http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/

Media Bloggers Association
http://www.mediabloggers.org/

MediaShift
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/

Online Journalism Review
http://www.ojr.org/

Online News Association
http://www.onlinenewsassociation.org/

Photojournalism

World Press Photo
www.worldpressphoto.org/

Press freedom and safety

Committee to Protect Journalists
http://www.cpj.org/

Inter American Press Association
www.sipiapa.com/v4/

International Federation of Journalists
http://www.ifj.org/en

International Freedom of Expression Exchangehttp://www.ifex.org/
Reporters Without Borders
http://www.rsf.org/

Rory Peck Trust
http://www.rorypecktrust.org/
South Asian Journalists Association
www.saja.org/


Think tanks, international affairs

Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org/

Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu/World.aspx

International Crisis Group http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm

Training

News University
http://www.newsu.org/

Travel

Lonely Planet Guides
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

U.S. Passports
http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html

U.S. Department of State’s Web site for travelers
http://travel.state.gov/



Books

Allan, Stuart. Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime, 2004.

Arnett, Peter. Live From the Battlefield,1994.

Ayres, Chris. War Reporting for Cowards, 2005.

Barnett, Peter. Foreign Correspondence: A Journalist's Biography: Tales from a Life in Australia, Asia, and the United States of America, 2001.

Bartimus, Tad, ed. War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, 2002.

Bernstein, Mark and Alex Lubertozzi. World War II On the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts that Riveted a Nation, 2003.

Cloud, Stanley and Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys, 1996.

Collier, Richard. Fighting Words: The War Correspondents of World War II, 1989.

Colman, Penny. Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II, 2002.

El-Nawawy, Mohammed. The Islraeli-Egyptian Peace Process in the Reporting of Western Journalists, 2002.

Elwood-Akers, Virginia. Women War Correspondents in the Vietnam War, 1961-1975, 1988.

Emery, Michael. On the Front Lines: Following America's Foreign Correspondents Across the Twentieth Century, 1995.

Evans, Harold. War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict from the Crimea to Iraq, 2003.

Farrar, Martin J. News from the Front: War Correspondents on the Western Front, 1914-1918, 1998.

Ferrari, Michelle and James Tobin.Reporting America at War: An Oral History, 2003.

Filkins, Dexter. The Forever War, 2008.

Foerstel, Herbert N. Killing the Messenger: Journalists at Risk in Modern Warfare, 2006.

Fralin, Frances. The Indelible Image: Photographs of War - 1846 to the Present, 1985.

Furst, Alan. The Foreign Correspondent, 2006.

Garrels, Anne. Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels, 2003.

Goodman, Al & John Pollack. (1997). The world on a string: How to become a freelance foreign correspondent. New York: Henry Holt and Company Inc.

Hachten, William A. and James F. Scotton. The World News Prism: Global Media in an Era of Terrorism, 2002.

Hallin, Daniel C. The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam, 1986.

Hannerz, Ulf. Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series), 2004.

Hedges, Chris. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, 2002.

Herr, Michael. Dispatches, 1977.

Hess, Stephen. International News & Foreign Correspondence, 1995.

Howe, Peter. Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer, 2002.

Howell, Haney. Road Runners: Combat Journalists in Cambodia, 1989.

Kusnetz, Marc. Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Inside Story / NBC News, 2003.

Lamb, David. Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns, 2002.

Landers, James. The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and Vietnam, 2004.

Levy, David. Reflections of a Moscow Correspondent, 1989.

Lunn, Hugh. Vietnam: A Reporter's War, 1986.

McLaughlin, Greg. The War Correspondent, 2002.

Moore, Molly. A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines, 1993.

Moorehead, Caroline. Martha Gellhorn: A Life, 2003.

Nichols, David, ed. Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, 1986.

Pyle, Richard and Horst Faas. Lost Over Laos, 2003.

Raddatz, Martha. The Long Road Home, 2007.

Richburg, Keith B. Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa,1997.

Roderick, John. Covering China: The Story of an American Reporter from Revolutionary Days to the Deng Era, 1993.

Safer, Morley. Flashbacks on Returning to Vietnam, 1990.

Said, Edward W. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, 1997.

Shadid, Anthony. Night Draws Near, 2005.

Simon, Bob. Forty Days, 1992.

Simpson, John. Simpson's World: Dispatches from the Front Lines, 2003.

Smith, Perry M. How CNN Fought the War, 1991.

Sorel, Nancy Caldwell. The Women Who Wrote the War, 1999.

Spinner, Jackie and Jenny Spinner. Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Storyof Joy, Loss and Survival in Iraq, 2006.

Steinman, Ron. Inside Television's First War: A Saigon Journal, 2002.

Sylvester, Judith L. and Suzanne Huffman. Reporting from the Front: the Media and the Military, 2005.

Tobin, James. Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II, 1997.
Tuohy, William. Dangerous Company, 1987.

Weber, Ronald. News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars, 2005.

Woodruff, Bob. In an Instant, 2007.


Film

Foreign Correspondent, 1940. An Alfred Hitchcock thriller with Joel McCrea and Laraine Day about a reporter who tries to expose spies.

The Killing Fields, 1984. Sam Waterston, Haing S. Nor. Based on the story of New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg and his Cambodian translator in Cambodia at the end of the Vietnam War.

Live from Baghdad, 2002. Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Keaton. About a CNN producer working in Baghdad during the Persian Gulf War.

Missing, 1982. Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek. Based on the true story of an America journalist who disappeared after the Chilean coup of 1973.

Salvador, 1986. James Woods, James Belushi.

Under Fire, 1983, Gene Hackman, Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy. Two journalists meet during the Nicaraguan revolution.

Welcome to Sarajevo, 1997. Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei. A TV journalist rescues a girl from war-ravaged Bosnia.

The Year of Living Dangerously, 1993. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver. Events surrounding an attempted coup in Indonesia in 1965.



Articles

Anft, M. (2009, February). The world in eight weeks. Johns Hopkins Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0209web/world.html

Carr, D. (2009, September 27). To cover world, CBS joins with a news site. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/business/media/28cbs.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&ref=business&adxnnlx=1254143866-YBgnd9IbsMw0WRsyIANVRg

Carroll, J. (2007). Foreign news coverage: U.S. media’s undervalued asset. Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University. Retrieved from http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/working_papers/2007_01_carroll.pdf

Dorrah, J. (2008, December/January). Armies of one. American Journalism Review. Retrieved from http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4443

Franklin, Stephen (2002). Weighing the risks – staying alive. Columbia Journalism Review 41 (1): 24-25.

Garber, M. (2009, January 14). Johnny Jones 2.0. Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved from http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/johnny_jones_20.php?page=all

Glaser, M. (2009, January). GlobalPost aims to resuscitate foreign correspondents online. Mediashift. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/01/globalpost-aims-to-resuscitate-foreign-correspondents-online008.html

Hamilton, J., & Jenner, E. (2004). Foreign correspondence: Evolution, not extinction. Neiman Reports. Fall. Retrieved from http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100799

Hart, Kim (2005). Quitting Kabul. American Journalism Review 27 (1): 12-13.

Hargrove, Thomas and Guido H. Stempel III (2002). Exploring reader rnterest in international news. Newspaper Research Journal 23 (4): 46-51.

Layton, Charles (2000). It’s a small world. American Journalism Review June, p. 52.

Ludtke, M. (2009). Long-form multimedia journalism: Quality is the key ingredient. Nieman Reports. Spring. Retrieved from http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100937

Parks, Michael (2002). Foreign News: What’s Next? Past Failures, Future Promises. Columbia Journalism Review January/February: 52.

Parks, Michael (2002). Weighing the risks – foreign coverage: The new math. Columbia Journalism Review 41 (1): 19.

Posetti, J. (2009, June). Rules of engagement for journalists on Twitter. Mediashift. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/06/rules-of-engagement-for-journalists-on-twitter170.html

Ricchiardi, S. (2008, December/January). Covering the world. American Journalism Review. Retrieved from http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4429

Shadid, Anthony (2002). Weighing the risks – I think I’m shot. Columbia Journalism Review 41 (1): 20-23.

Tai, Zixue and Tsan-Kuo Chang (2002). The global news and the pictures in their heads. Gazette: The International Journal for Communications Studies 64(3): 251-265.

Westphal, D. (2009, May). Foreign reporting, the entrepreneurial and multimedia way. Online Journalism Review. Retrieved from http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/davidwestphal/200905/1724/

Woollacott, Martin (2005). Morrally engaged: Reporters in crises. Political Quarterly August Supplement 1, Vol. 76: 80-90.

Wu, H. Denis (2003). Homogeneity Around the world? Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies 65 (1): 9-24.