Reporting from the Danger Zone

Journalism is a dangerous business when one's "beat" is a war zone. Armoudian reveals the complications facing frontline journalists who cover warzones, hot spots and other hazardous situations. It compares yesterday's conflict journalism, which was fraught with its own dangers, with today's even more perilous situations-in the face of shrinking journalism budgets, greater reliance on freelancers, tracking technologies, and increasingly hostile adversaries. It also contrasts the difficulties of foreign correspondents who navigate alien sources, languages and land, with domestically-situated correspondents who witness their own homelands being torn apart.

Journalism is a dangerous business when one's "beat" is a warzone, a corrupt regime, or organized crime. In Reporting from the Danger Zone, Maria Armoudian reveals the complications facing frontline journalists who cover these hot spots, including how they find, access and deliver their stories while keeping themselves safe from harm.

Although conflict journalism has always been fraught with danger, today's reporters face even more perilous conditions while also contending with shrinking journalism budgets, news outlets' greater reliance on freelancers, tracking technologies and increasingly hostile terrain. Armoudian also contrasts the difficulties of foreign correspondents who navigate alien sources, languages and land, with domestically-situated correspondents who witness their own homelands being torn apart.

Armoudian documents journalists' thoughts, emotions, and strategies in their own words. Their dramatic and compelling journeys reveal the fortitudes and frailties of humanity as well as the dynamics and struggles of the information wars, revealing factors that determine the information we do, and do not, receive from danger zones.

1. Ethical Journalism and Why it Matters  2. War Correspondents at Home  3. War Correspondents Abroad  4. The Danger Zones of Yesterday  5. 21st Century Danger Zones, More Dangerous than Ever  6. 21st Century Journalism in the Danger Zone  7. War Stories and their Effects  8. Conclusion: Witness to the World at War