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CORRESPONDENTS

What if journalists never come back...

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WHO ARE THEY?

War Correspondents

are reporters or commentators assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas

Embedded Journalists

are news reporters who are attached to a military unit involved in an armed conflict; also called embed.

EXAMPLES

Domestic and International

War Correspondent Cases

After that, an NBC cameraman correspondent, Neil Davis, and a soundman, Bill Latch, went to report the situation in the capital of Thailand to NBC and they were killed by a military fire while working. Thai soldiers who controlled the tank suddenly shot them. The shrapnel from the big bullet of the tank killed both of them. Before Neil died, he turned on his camera and filmed himself until his last breath.

REBELLION

in Thailand

"Neil Davis was the greatest overall journalist of the Vietnam War," said Jim Pringle, a former Reuters and Newsweek correspondent. “Rebellion in Thailand on September 9, 1985” The coup, led by Colonel Manoonkrit Rupekachorn, and General Serm Na Nakorn, tried to take over the former government of Prem Tinsulanonda, Prime minister of Thailand at that time.

World War II

• “In this war I have known a lot of officers who were loved and

respected by the soldiers under them. But never have I crossed the trail

• f any man as beloved as Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton, Texas,”

said Ernie Pyle.

Syrian Civil War

Marie Catherine Colvin

• She was a brave American war correspondent.
• She covered on reporting Siege of Homs and

effects of war on civilians in Syria.

• She died in February 22, 2012 because she

could not escape from a building targeted by the snipers in time.

ISIS

Islamic State

• f Iraq and Syria

Journalists who were killed by

Example Cases

James Foley

He is a freelance American war video reporter covering the Syrian Civil War. He went to the war zone to become a war correspondent. On November 2012, he was captured by ISIS in Syria. ISIS offered a negotiation of $132 million ransom. However, the American government did not agree with this redemption. After Foley had been captured for over 2 years, he was beheaded by ISIS on August 2014. For the reason of his death, the execution video entitled “A Message to America” implied that the execution was a retaliation for U.S. airstrikes targeting ISIS in Iraq.

KENJI GOTO

He went to Syria with an attempt to save the

• ther Japanese hostage,

Haruna Yukawa, who had also showed up in the earlier video by ISIS. However, he was captured by militants in the Middle East on October, 2014. Moreover, the Japanese government expanded its supports to countries fighting ISIS. As a result, another apparent beheading video

• f ‘Kenji Goto’ was

released and a militant speaking with an English accent named Jihadi John appeared to kill him. was a Japanese veteran freelance reporter covering the suffering of civilians in a war zone. Then, ISIS offered a negotiation with the government of Japan by exchanging 200 million dollars with two captured journalists (Goto and Yukawa) but it failed.

RUQIA HASSAN

She wrote articles against ISIS about the frequent coalition-led airstrikes and Internet space taken over by ISIS in a tone of resistance

• n her Facebook.

She bravely went to the risky area, in which social media was taken over by ISIS. She expressed all of her disgust for the terrorist via many posts on July 2015. Later on, ISIS noticed her movement and arrested her at that place. On September 2015, she was killed by ISIS. Ruqia has never been afraid to die. “I have Dignity. It’s better than I live in Humiliation with ISIS,” Hassan said. The first female Kurdish citizen journalist who was killed by ISIS

A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S

significant roles in journalism If human let their emotion frozen and stuck with the war incident, they may end up living far away from a normal life and suffering from the phobia without realizing. Unless human beings obtain more factual information about the situation, they will not gain the immunity against fear, irrational anger, depression and skepticism as a result of the wars.

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Behind the scene:

A war correspondent's passion

According to Page One: Inside The New York Times, David Carr said that he did not wish Tim a good luck because he might never come back if he probed too much in the war.

Hannah Storm, director of the International News Safety Institute, said, “It feels like now in places like Syria there are more and more people in their early or mid-20s with little or no experience - but with an overriding enthusiasm which makes them want to go out there and make a name for themselves, without taking the realities on board.”

“You feel small in the presence of dead men, and ashamed at being alive, and you don’t ask silly questions,” said Ernie Pyle.

References

• rg/blog/2010/09/in-thailand-remembering-neil-davis-bill-latch.php

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