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The psychological health of contractors working in war zones
Journal of Traumatic Stress, volume 22, issue 2 (2009), pp. 102-105
"This study examines the psychological health of contractors working in war zones. Seventy-nine contractors completed an Internet-based psychiatric assessment. The sample was exclusively male with a mean age of 43 (SD = 7) years. The number of contractors whose scores exceeded the cutoff points for
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Staying alive in the killing fields
British Journalism Review, volume 20, issue 1 (2009), pp. 27-32
"Reporting on wars has always been a risky business for journalists. But news organisations have transformed their approach to safety in recent years by ensuring that all their staff sent to the front line have as much training as possible to minimise their chances of becoming victims of the conflic
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Journalists: Shielded from the dangers of war in their pursuit of the truth?
South African Yearbook of International Law, volume 34, issue 1 (2009), pp. 70-100
"This piece seeks to unpack these questions by exploring the current protection afforded journalists under both general international law and IHL (Part I); the IHL status of journalists (both those embedded in the military and those reporting as freelance / independent journalists) (Part II); target
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Don't shoot the messenger: Prospects for protecting journalists in conflict situations
Media, War & Conflict, volume 2, issue 2 (2009), pp. 129-148
"One of the greatest threats to freedom of expression around the world is the violence committed against journalists practicing their profession in conflict situations. During the last 20 years, an alarming number of journalists have been targeted or killed when reporting about war. This situation h
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Twenty-First Century Embedded Journalists: Lawful Targets?
Army Lawyer, issue July (2009), 32 pp.
"In light of the U.S. functionality test to Article 51(3), the role and use of today’s embedded journalist in international armed conflicts poses a direct threat to their civilian protections under Article 79 of Protocol I. Despite the fact that embedded journalism has helped to facilitate better
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The protection of journalists in armed conflicts
German Yearbook of International Law, volume 51 (2008), pp. 289-320
"The first casualty of war is truth. Disinformation and tactical ruses of war have constituted essential components of warfare throughout history. Over time, influencing public opinion - and consequentially securing the prime position to exert such influence - has become ever more significant. In mo
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Journalists, war crimes and international justice
Media, War & Conflict, volume 1, issue 3 (2008), pp. 261-269
"The examination of the ethical and moral issues surrounding the reporting of war crimes signals one of the outstanding problems facing journalism in the contemporary era. As the nature of war has changed, so has the nature of the journalism mandated to cover it, and the selection of war crimes tria
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The international protection of journalists in armed conflict and other violent situations
Australian Journal of Human Rights, volume 14, issue 1 (2008), pp. 99-140
"Media reporting of armed conflict and other situations of heightened violence has become increasingly perilous, with large numbers of journalists and other media personnel killed or deliberately targeted because of their professional work, including by government forces and non-government actors. T
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Killing the Messenger: Report of the Global Inquiry by the International News Safety Institute Into the Protection of Journalists
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Brussels: International News Safety Institute (INSI) (2007), 72 pp.
"One thousand journalists and support staff have died trying to report the news around the world in the past 10 years: an average of two a week. Only one in four news media staff died covering war and other armed conflicts. The great majority died in peacetime, working in their own countries. At lea
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Journalists in War Zones: Crossing from the Newsroom into the Arena
De Jure, volume 40 (2007), pp. 379-384
"The very real danger in which conflict-journalists find themselves is well illustrated by the fact that during the recent conflict in Iraq proportionally more journalists were killed than members of the coalition forces (BalguyGallois March 2004 International Review of the Red Cross 37). The fact t
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Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Media Personnel Assigned to the Iraq War
Journalism Practice, volume 1, issue 3 (2007), pp. 356-371
"This paper investigates occupational stressors amongst media personnel assigned to work on covering the Iraq War via interviews with 54 journalists from the BBC and Reuters, who worked in Iraq between February and April 2003. A range of stressors were identified that could be categorized into three
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Killing the Messenger: Journalists at Risk in Modern Warfare
Praeger (2006), xv, 161 pp.
"Killing the Messenger reveals the dangerous new face of war and journalism. Covering armed conflicts has always been dangerous business, but in the past, press heroes like Ernie Pyle and Edward R. Murrow faced only the danger of random bullets or bombs. Today’s war correspondent is actually in th
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Journalists under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press (2006), xiv, 195 pp.
"As journalists in Iraq and other hot spots around the world continue to face harrowing dangers and personal threats, neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein offers a timely and important exploration into the psychological damage of those who, armed only with pen, tape recorder, or camera, bear witness
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The Role of Women Journalists in Conflict Reporting in Sri Lanka
Media Asia, volume 32, issue 1 (2005), pp. 31-33
"There is a huge disparity seen in the representation of men and women in the coverage of the twenty-year-old civil war in Sri Lanka. Most of the media coverage had been facilitated by the military during the period of the conflict. These, however, were not regular and only afforded a one-sided view
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Dangerous assignment
American Journalism Review, volume 27, issue 6 (2005), pp. 44-51
"Iraq has proven to be a particularly hazardous posting for journalists. More media workers have been killed there than during the two-decades-long war in Vietnam. And 15 have died at the hands of American forces." (Introduction)
The Protection of Journalists in Armed Conflicts
"The problem of the protection of journalists is closely linked to that of freedom of information and was first considered as early as 1893/94. In 1927 a conference of press experts held in Geneva adopted various resolutions for their submission to member states. These resolutions addressed a range
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Embedded journalists in the Iraq war: Are they at greater psychological risk?
Journal of Traumatic Stress, volume 18, issue 2 (2005), pp. 129-132
"The current war in Iraq saw an alliance between the media and the military, a process called embedded journalism. The aim of this study was to explore whether this process affected the journalists' vulnerability to psychological distress. Eighty-five of 100 journalists approached agreed to particip
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The protection of journalists and news media personnel in armed conflict
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 86, issue 853 (2004), pp. 37-67
"The recent war in Iraq is a perfect illustration of the growing risks faced by journalists working in conflict zones. It is therefore important to call renewed attention to the fact that attacks against journalists and media equipment are illegal under international humanitarian law, which protects
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Media at War: The Iraq Crisis
London: Sage (2004), 188 pp.
"International media coverage of the war in Iraq provoked public scrutiny as well debate amongst journalists themselves. Media at War offers a critical overview of the coverage in the context of other preceding wars, including the first Gulf War, and opens up the debate on the key questions that eme
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