AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/18/2015
EAN 9781107519305, ISBN10: 1107519306
Paperback, 375 pages, 23 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Based on extended interviews conducted from the Pakistani countryside to Washington, AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present reveals for the first time what it takes to get the stories that brought the world home to America. It gives new front-line insights into major events from the Japanese surrender in 1945 to the 2010s Syrian civil war, and it helps to understand news impact on international affairs through evolving journalistic practices. Both successes and failures through eight decades of foreign correspondence from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe show that public discourse has been best served by correspondents who, at great risk, challenged accepted narratives, exposed omnipresent lies, gave a voice to the voiceless, and stymied the frequently violent efforts of those who feared truth-telling eyewitnesses.
1. Introduction
2. Getting ready, getting started, and getting lost in translation
3. What's the story? News judgment, news pitches
4. Getting to the sources (and keeping them alive)
5. Being an American abroad – perceptions of journalists
6. Eyewitness reporting
getting to the scene
7. The costs of being there to count the bodies
8. Your byline today, mine tomorrow
teamwork and competition
9. Access, censorship, and spin
relating with foreign governments
10. Flacks, spooks, and objective journalists
relating with the US government abroad
11. Getting it out, getting it edited
filing news and handling editors
12. The evolving milkmen
writing for an audience
13. Purpose and influence of foreign correspondence
14. Eight decades of bearing witness and telling the world's stories
conclusions.