... communication and media research that links textual critique and qualitative fieldwork methods oriented towards production processes ( Kumar & Parameswaran, 2018 ; Saha, 2018 ). The last 30 years saw a significant decrease in the number of Western foreign correspondents and bureaus posted abroad ( Moore...

...This chapter explores the experiences of Reuters during the war. Reuter correspondents had never forgotten that they were writing for the news agency of the British Empire. The call of patriotism was very strong during the First World War. Reuters had not foreseen the outbreak of the First World...

...This chapter explores how Reuters managed to gather news from the battlefield during the Second World War. Censorship during the Second World War was generally more flexible than during the First World War. It was sometimes unpredictable, but war correspondents were allowed greater freedom...

... the capacity to censor and communicate long stories written by the group of highly competitive reporters who remained on Bataan. Not until these correspondents managed to evacuate to Australia in April did the home front become aware of the extent of the defeat in the Philippines. Clark Field Diller LeGrande...

... correspondents. Two of them landed on Guadalcanal in early August, where they worked with two civilian correspondents, Richard Tregaskis and Robert Miller. Initially, a combination of tenuous communications and overzealous censorship meant that these correspondents struggled to tell the story of Guadalcanal...

... Russell Bigart Homer Casey Robert G Dowling John Graham Haugland Vern Iwo Jima Battle of Korean War Sherrod Robert war correspondents Johnson Lyndon B Vietnam War censorship Chicago Tribune Congress Espionage Act King Ernest J media bosses Office of War Information OWI radio Roosevelt...

..., America s longtime news hub.4 As Pyle could testify, wartime London had its obvious disadvantages, from strict rationing to dank winters, but he and most of his colleagues found conditions in the Pacific much more taxing. After reaching one of the Allied headquarters, the correspondents still faced...

...This chapter explores how three war correspondents—Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer—outmaneuvered rapidly shifting battlelines and military regulations to become part of an elite group attached to the “Fighting First” Division of the United States Army in the European Theater...

...This chapter discusses hundreds of letters to the editor, sent by readers with various agendas to express. It reveals that not long after Chapman's murder, at first scores and then hundreds of readers sent letters to both the police and the press about the crimes. By doing so, these correspondents...

... and kind while also exhibiting a growing focus on lobby reporting at the expense of the Gallery tradition since the 1930s. Drawing on contemporary interviews with Parliamentary correspondents, combined with content analysis of national newspaper coverage, the chapter highlights  the striking decline...

... financial costs borne by injured workers, their families, and their organizations following workplace injuries and fatalities; and a consideration the disproportionate safety risks faced by foreign correspondents and young workers. When you ask people to name the most dangerous occupations...

... newspapers reconciled black protest and white scrutiny by forsaking explicit textual radicalism for a more coded militancy, as illustrated by the “Double V” campaign. Black war correspondents – including Edgar Rouzeau, Deton "Jack" Brooks, Roi Ottley, and George Padmore – praised black troops...

...This chapter discusses the Vietnam War from the perspective of a South Vietnamese war correspondent. It first shares the author's personal experience as a war correspondent and a journalist employed in both government and private media in South Vietnam. Next, the chapter turns to the biases...

...Correspondents played a vital role in the Spanish anarchist press. They helped to build a global libertarian community; three specific cases narrated in this chapter describe how a nucleus of Spanish-speaking anarchist readers developed in North America. The correspondents’ work made possible...

... as journalists' careers. War sells newspapers, and it sends audience figures for TV, radio, and news websites soaring, at least in the early stages before audience fatigue sets in, as it invariably does if a war lasts ‘too long’. Crimean War Godkin Edwin Lawrence Russell William Howard war correspondents...

...Being There considers the evolution of international reporting news by juxtaposing the death of seasoned war corresponded Marie Colvin during the bombing of Homs, Syria with the new digital tools Syrian citizens used to document and stream the war to the world in real time...

... and the scale of a history. Hence the resort to the quest for archival data in those countries where geographer activities have been recorded and exchanged in correspondence with U.S. personnel. These collections may be very large or small; they may be held privately or in university “special collections...

... these characters, along with a relatively small number of other journalists from big news organizations, need to be reassessed. It stresses the need to explore not just the dashing exploits of the correspondents who reported from the front, but also those who remained stuck at Allied headquarters where the daily...

...A small number of correspondents hit the North African beaches on D-Day 1942, among them Leo Disher, Bill Stoneman, and Hal Boyle. But a combination of combat chaos and communications failures meant that they were unable to tell the home front about the GIs’ first taste of combat. Instead...

...Soon after the invasion, a group of correspondents including Drew Middleton and Bill Stoneman followed Allied troops into Tunisia, where they witnessed the first American battle against German troops. Poor communications and overzealous censorship remained a major problem, however. Because few...