War correspondent

<h2 id="history">History</h2>

People have written about wars for thousands of years. <a href="/facts/Herodotus/hTgRSAnv">Herodotus</a>'s account of the <a href="/facts/Greco-Persian_Wars/avlfmxyh">Persian Wars</a> is similar to journalism, though he did not himself participate in the events. <a href="/facts/Thucydides/oec8VKJz">Thucydides</a>, who some years later wrote a <a href="/facts/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/fRgCdMjh">history of the Peloponnesian War</a> was a commander and an observer to the events he described. Memoirs of soldiers became an important source of <a href="/facts/Military_history/AKonYGMV">military history</a> when that specialty developed. War correspondents, as specialized <a href="/facts/Journalist/LADe3dzs">journalists</a>, began working after the printing of news for publication became commonplace.
In the eighteenth century the Baroness <a href="/facts/Frederika_Charlotte_Riedesel/2vDeh69p">Frederika Charlotte Riedesel</a>'s Letters and Journals Relating to the <a href="/facts/American_Revolutionary_War/8MxJNtcU">War of the American Revolution</a> and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga is regarded as the first <a href="/facts/Women_in_journalism_and_media_professions/DcLh77tC">account of war by a woman</a>. Her description of the events that took place in <a href="/facts/Marshall_House_(Schuylerville,_New_York)/DUTyDJVb">the Marshall House</a> are particularly poignant because she was in the midst of battle.
The first modern war correspondent is said to be <a href="/facts/Netherlands/y8xn5stT">Dutch</a> painter <a href="/facts/Willem_van_de_Velde_the_Elder/0Haas1gF">Willem van de Velde</a>, who in 1653 took to sea in a small boat to observe a naval battle between the Dutch and the English, of which he made many sketches on the spot, which he later developed into one big drawing that he added to a report he wrote to the <a href="/facts/States-General_of_the_Netherlands/ekUD6R8K">States General</a>. A further modernization came with the development of <a href="/facts/Newspaper/q4waJGVL">newspapers</a> and <a href="/facts/Magazine/4CPK1emz">magazines</a>. One of the earliest war correspondents was <a href="/facts/Henry_Crabb_Robinson/AVc56TjP">Henry Crabb Robinson</a>, who covered <a href="/facts/Peninsular_War/7llD0qku">Napoleon's campaigns in Spain</a> and Germany for <a href="/facts/The_Times/5BwkodnX">The Times</a> of London. Another early correspondent was <a href="/facts/William_Hicks_(Royal_Navy_Officer)/HWuM9XWU">William Hicks</a> whose letters describing the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) were also published in The Times. <a href="/facts/Winston_Churchill_as_writer/1cHxAGmg">Winston Churchill in 1899</a>, working as a correspondent, became notorious as an escaped prisoner of war.
Early film <a href="/facts/Newsreel/9Ms7gKwf">newsreels</a> and television news rarely had war correspondents. Rather, they would simply collect footage provided by other sources, often the government, and the <a href="/facts/News_presenter/QfSyKYf5">news anchor</a> would then add <a href="/facts/Narrator/W4A9n42a">narration</a>. This footage was often staged as cameras were large and bulky until the introduction of small, portable motion picture cameras during <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a>. The situation changed dramatically with the <a href="/facts/Vietnam_War/W0gfbGTE">Vietnam War</a> when networks from around the world sent cameramen with portable cameras and correspondents. This proved damaging to the United States as the full brutality of war became a daily feature on the nightly news.
News coverage gives combatants an opportunity to forward information and arguments to the media. By this means, conflict parties attempt to use the media to gain support from their constituencies and dissuade their opponents.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a> The continued progress of technology has allowed live coverage of events via <a href="/facts/Satellite_up-links/y5RXPMDT">satellite up-links</a> and the rise of <a href="/facts/Twenty-four_hour_news_channels/dCh98WRf">twenty-four hour news channels</a> has led to a heightened demand for material to fill the hours.
Only some conflicts receive extensive worldwide coverage, however. Among recent wars, the <a href="/facts/Kosovo_War/54xPuVXC">Kosovo War</a>, the <a href="/facts/Gulf_War/6LdLnGdo">Persian Gulf War</a> and the <a href="/facts/Russo-Ukrainian_war/kE7cHvoQ">Russo-Ukrainian war</a> received a great deal of coverage. In contrast, the largest war in the last half of the 20th century, the <a href="/facts/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War/DqD7W8vd">Iran–Iraq War</a>, received far less substantial coverage. This is typical for wars among less-developed countries, as audiences are less interested and the reports do little to increase sales and ratings. The lack of infrastructure makes reporting more difficult and expensive, and the conflicts are also far more dangerous for war correspondents.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>
War correspondents are protected by the <a href="/facts/Geneva_Conventions_of_1949/3qaUnd2o">Geneva Conventions of 1949</a> and their <a href="/facts/Geneva_Protocol/ws7wUzjU">additional protocols</a>. In general, journalists are considered civilians so they have all rights related to the civilians in a conflict.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a>

<h3>Crimean War</h3>
<a href="/facts/William_Howard_Russell/TgpG9sQE">William Howard Russell</a>, who covered the <a href="/facts/Crimean_War/v163wdr8">Crimean War</a>, also for The Times, was perhaps the first modern war correspondent.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a> The stories from this era, which were almost as lengthy and analytical as early books on war, took numerous weeks from being written to being published.

<h3>Third Italian War of Independence</h3>
Another renowned journalist, <a href="/facts/Ferdinando_Petruccelli_della_Gattina/XhSQGqWH">Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina</a>, Italian correspondent of European newspapers such as <a href="/facts/La_Presse_(French_newspaper)/Fs56pLyc">La Presse</a>, <a href="/facts/Journal_des_d%C3%A9bats/ApUYGgra">Journal des débats</a>, Indépendance Belge and <a href="/facts/The_Daily_News_(UK)/StV26LCY">The Daily News</a>, was known for his extremely gory style in his articles but involving at the same time. <a href="/facts/Jules_Claretie/6V8gHkwS">Jules Claretie</a>, critic of <a href="/facts/Le_Figaro/4a9vADLq">Le Figaro</a>, was amazed about his correspondence of the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Custoza_(1866)/VdSDttFs">Battle of Custoza</a>, during the <a href="/facts/Third_Italian_War_of_Independence/KFSSMKbX">Third Italian War of Independence</a>. Claretie wrote, "Nothing could be more fantastic and cruelly true than this tableau of agony. Reportage has never given a superior artwork."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a>

<h3>Russo-Japanese War</h3>

Main article: <a href="/facts/Military_attach%C3%A9s_and_observers_in_the_Russo-Japanese_War/FXYnCNT9">Military attachés and observers in the Russo-Japanese War</a>
When the <a href="/facts/Telegraphy/JhRYDSDu">telegraph</a> was developed, reports could be sent on a daily basis and events could be reported as they occurred. That is when short, mainly descriptive stories as used today became common. Press coverage of the <a href="/facts/Russo-Japanese_War/YWIxIkE2">Russo-Japanese War</a> was affected by restrictions on the movement of reporters and strict censorship. In all military conflicts which followed this 1904–1905 war, close attention to more managed reporting was considered essential.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a>

<h3>First and Second Balkan Wars</h3>
Main article: <a href="/facts/Journalists_of_the_Balkan_Wars/ynuvcg73">Journalists of the Balkan Wars</a>
The <a href="/facts/First_Balkan_War/UqW8xIkd">First Balkan War</a> (1912–1913) between the <a href="/facts/Balkan_League/64frPGIN">Balkan League</a> (<a href="/facts/Serbia/U0LVzPdI">Serbia</a>, <a href="/facts/Greece/lqHw8bTB">Greece</a>, <a href="/facts/Montenegro/QynKJrw5">Montenegro</a> and <a href="/facts/Bulgaria/Er5pY3YS">Bulgaria</a>) and the <a href="/facts/Ottoman_Empire/6QvfTRsg">Ottoman Empire</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Second_Balkan_War/PyjQLNU9">Second Balkan War</a> (1913) between Bulgaria and its former allies Serbia and Greece, was actively covered by a large number of foreign newspapers, news agencies, and movie companies. An estimated 200–300 war correspondents, <a href="/facts/War_photographer/S5BY0AI2">war photographers</a>, <a href="/facts/War_artists/r3eBokJf">war artists</a>, and war cinematographers were active during these two nearly sequential conflicts.

<h3>First World War</h3>
The <a href="/facts/First_World_War/vITTUanQ">First World War</a> was characterized by rigid censorship. British <a href="/facts/Herbert_Kitchener,_1st_Earl_Kitchener/AoPGVaHw">Lord Kitchener</a> hated reporters, and they were banned from the Front at the start of the war. But reporters such as <a href="/facts/Basil_Clarke/YrCMwoFq">Basil Clarke</a> and <a href="/facts/Philip_Gibbs/C0T830y3">Philip Gibbs</a> lived as fugitives near the Front, sending back their reports. The Government eventually allowed some accredited reporters in April 1915, and this continued until the end of the war. This allowed the Government to control what they saw.
French authorities were equally opposed to war journalism, but less competent (criticisms of the French high command were leaked to the press during the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Verdun/MFWmu6fK">Battle of Verdun</a> in 1916). By far the most rigid and authoritarian regime was imposed by the United States, though General <a href="/facts/John_J._Pershing/d9q2cEHM">John J. Pershing</a> allowed <a href="/facts/Embedded_journalism/f15KmS93">embedded reporters</a> (<a href="/facts/Floyd_Gibbons/vb8v5IRo">Floyd Gibbons</a> had been severely wounded at the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Belleau_Wood/GwoD4EgG">Battle of Belleau Wood</a> in 1918).

Further information: <a href="/facts/List_of_military_attach%C3%A9s_and_war_correspondents_in_World_War_I/26gHYe0x">List of military attachés and war correspondents in World War I</a>
<h3>Second World War</h3>
American broadcast journalist <a href="/facts/Edward_R._Murrow/z0lRYLjF">Edward R. Murrow</a> gained great public acclaim in the United States for his vivid and compelling <a href="/facts/Edward_R._Murrow/z0lRYLjF">live radio reports from London</a> during <a href="/facts/The_Blitz/lznUfoDQ">the Blitz</a>, prior to U.S. entry into <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a> in December 1941.

<h4>United Kingdom</h4>

At the beginning of the war the matters of war reporting came under the authority of a Public Relations Section created as part of the <a href="/facts/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_II)/R7fPuxSs">British Expeditionary Force</a> (BEF).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a> At the beginning of World War II, the <a href="/facts/War_Office/7qVGsJCk">War Office</a> urged all the major newspapers to nominate men to accompany the BEF. While the official process of vetting journalists took place, the War Office authorised to provide a limited ‘eye-witness’ coverage. Journalist <a href="/facts/Alexander_Clifford/yYJRErMr">Alex Clifford</a> became one the first ‘eye-witness’ who joined the BEF units in France in September 1939.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> 
The first official group of British, Commonwealth and American correspondents arrived in France on October 10, 1939 (among them were O. D. Gallagher, <a href="/facts/Bernard_Gray_(Sunday_Pictorial_journalist)/9uMNpgUT">Bernard Gray</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a>
All of the war reporting was subject to censorship, directed by the <a href="/facts/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom/el15gLEa">chief press censor</a> <a href="/facts/George_Pirie_Thomson/b1jATMX5">George Pirie Thomson</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a> At the start of the war the <a href="/facts/Royal_Navy/Xdy8YCH7">Royal Navy</a> implemented a policy that curtailed war correspondents' presence on its ships. This positioned them as the most conservative branch of the British military in terms of media engagement.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a>

<h3>Vietnam War</h3>

Main article: <a href="/facts/U.S._news_media_and_the_Vietnam_War/27jWVQVt">U.S. news media and the Vietnam War</a>The <a href="/facts/Vietnam_War/W0gfbGTE">US conflict in Vietnam</a> saw the tools and access available to war correspondents expanded significantly. Innovations such as cheap and reliable hand-held color video cameras, and the proliferation of television sets in Western homes give Vietnam-era correspondents the ability to portray conditions on the ground more vividly and accurately than ever before. Additionally, the US Military allowed unprecedented access for journalists, with almost no restrictions on the press,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a> unlike in previous conflicts. These factors produced military coverage the likes of which had never been seen or anticipated, with explicit coverage of the human suffering produced by the war available right in the living rooms of everyday people.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a>
Vietnam-era war correspondence was markedly different from that of WWI and WWII, with more focus on <a href="/facts/Investigative_journalism/j4Rx2wDf">investigative journalism</a> and discussion of the ethics surrounding the war and America's role in it.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a> Reporters from dozens of media outlets were dispatched to Vietnam, with the number of correspondents surpassing 400 at the peak of the war.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a> Vietnam was a dangerous war for these journalists, and 68 would be killed before the conflict came to a close.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a>
Many within the US Government and elsewhere would blame the media for the American failure in Vietnam, claiming that media focus on atrocities, the horrors of combat and the impact on soldiers damaged morale and eliminated support for the war at home.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a> Unlike in older conflicts, where Allied journalism was almost universally supportive of the war effort, journalists in the Vietnam theater were often harshly critical of the US military, and painted a very bleak picture of the war.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a> In an era where the media was already playing a significant role in domestic events such as the <a href="/facts/Civil_Rights_Movement/llwscvvR">Civil Rights Movement</a>, war correspondence in Vietnam would have a major impact on the American political scene. Some have argued that the conduct of war correspondents in Vietnam is to blame for the tightening of restrictions on journalists by the US in wars that followed, including the <a href="/facts/Persian_Gulf_war/6LdLnGdo">Persian Gulf war</a> and the conflicts in <a href="/facts/Iraq_War/dlAgf8at">Iraq</a> and <a href="/facts/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)/vKbbttLN">Afghanistan</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21">21</a>
During the Vietnam War, UPI correspondent Joseph Galloway was present at the battle of the Ia Drang. The U.S. Army awarded him the Bronze Star for his actions during the battle, a rare event for a journalist. Along with Gen. Hal Moore, who commanded U.S. forces in the battle, Galloway subsequently wrote about his experiences in the book, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22">22</a>

<h3>Gulf War</h3>
Main article: <a href="/facts/Media_coverage_of_the_Gulf_War/4kzSq6zT">Media coverage of the Gulf War</a>The role of war correspondents in the <a href="/facts/Gulf_War/6LdLnGdo">Gulf War</a> would prove to be quite different from their role in Vietnam. <a href="/facts/The_Pentagon/vkuy1sHT">The Pentagon</a> blamed the media for the loss of the Vietnam war,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23">23</a> and prominent military leaders did not believe the United States could sustain a prolonged and heavily televised war.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24">24</a> As a result, numerous restrictions were placed on the activities of correspondents covering the war in the Gulf. Journalists allowed to accompany the troops were organized into "pools", where small groups were escorted into combat zones by US troops and allowed to share their findings later.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25">25</a> Those who attempted to strike out on their own and operate outside the pool system claim to have found themselves obstructed directly or indirectly by the military, with passport visas revoked and photographs and notes taken by force from journalists while US forces observed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26">26</a>
Beyond military efforts to control the press, observers noted that press reaction to the Gulf War was markedly different from that of Vietnam. Critics claim that coverage of the war was "jingoistic" and overly favorable towards American forces, in harsh contrast to the criticism and muckraking that had characterized coverage of Vietnam.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27">27</a> Journalists like <a href="/facts/CNN/kEYsUQqr">CNN</a>'s <a href="/facts/Peter_Arnett/XJwL1Tto">Peter Arnett</a> were lambasted for reporting anything that could be construed as contrary to the war effort, and commentators observed that coverage of the war in general was "saccharine" and heavily biased towards the American account.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28">28</a>
These trends would continue into the <a href="/facts/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)/vKbbttLN">Afghanistan</a> and <a href="/facts/Iraq_War/dlAgf8at">Iraq</a> wars, where the pool model was replaced by a new system of <a href="/facts/Embedded_journalism/f15KmS93">embedded journalism</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29">29</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30">30</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31">31</a>

<h2 id="books-by-war-correspondents">Books by war correspondents</h2>
<ul><li>Tolstoy, Leo (1855). <a href="/facts/Sevastopol_Sketches/Yq5PJKJF">Sevastopol Sketches</a>.</li>
<li>Herr, Michael (1978). <a href="/facts/Dispatches_(book)/dJ6Dn00q">Dispatches</a>. Knopf. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/3732647">3732647</a>. Previous ed. also available.</li>
<li>Weber, Olivier (2002). Afghan Eternities. Le Chene/<a href="/facts/UNESCO/QSbkRv3o">UNESCO</a> (with <a href="/facts/Reza/BEE8SuF3">Reza</a>).</li>
<li>Hedges, Chris (2002). <a href="/facts/War_Is_a_Force_That_Gives_Us_Meaning/a5upvja8">War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning</a>. PublicAffairs. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-58648-049-9.</li>
<li>Fisk, Robert (2005). <a href="/facts/The_Great_War_for_Civilisation/1JtyFtkp">The Great War for Civilisation</a>. Fourth Estate. ISBN 1-4000-7517-3.</li>
<li>Filkins, Dexter (2008). <a href="/facts/The_Forever_War_(non-fiction_book)/zbC8YUoG">The Forever War</a>. Alfred A. Knopf. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780307266392. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/213407458">213407458</a>.</li>
<li>Junger, Sebastian (2010). <a href="/facts/War/MPluTbJ0">War</a>. Grand Central. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0446556224.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32">32</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul>
<li>Journalism portal</li></ul>
<ul><li>List of war correspondents</li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_foreign_correspondents_in_the_Spanish_Civil_War/Q1h2zJEX">List of foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/War_correspondents_1942%E2%80%931943/h17hdojf">War correspondents 1942–1943</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Journalists_of_the_Balkan_Wars/ynuvcg73">Journalists of the Balkan Wars</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Milblog/fbkfzgU6">Milblog</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Military_journalism_in_the_United_States/6Q0WpGbw">Military journalism in the United States</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Peace_journalism/4avdjv2X">Peace journalism</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Press_pool/TBNo2Fea">Press pool</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Breathing_(memorial_sculpture)/t61gffut">Breathing (memorial sculpture)</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Headline_Hunters_(1945_film)/cqYrW1fK">Headline Hunters</a>, a 1945 newsreel short about Canadian WWII war correspondents</li></ul>

<ul><li>Stephen D. Reese, Stephen D., Oscar H. Gandy and August E. Grant. (2001). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=I0BlAAAAMAAJ&q=journalist+subject:%22Reporters+and+reporting%22">Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World</a>, Maywah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-8058-3653-0; <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/46383772">OCLC 46383772</a></li>
<li>War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam by Tad Bartimus. NY: Random House, 2002. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780375506284</li>
<li>On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam by Joyce Hoffmann. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2008. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780306810596; see <a href="http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/Home/joyce-hoffman.aspx">Author Interview</a> at the <a href="/facts/Pritzker_Military_Museum_%26_Library/ctAIpSjF">Pritzker Military Museum & Library</a> on October 30, 2008</li>
<li>Knightley Phillip. (2003). The First Casualty: The War Correspondent As Hero Propagandist Myth-Maker from the Crimea to the Gulf War New ed. London: Andre Deutsch.</li></ul>
<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Hamilton, J. M. (2011). Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting. United States: LSU Press.</li>
<li>Collier, R. (1989). Fighting Words: The War Correspondents of World War Two. New York: St. Martin's.</li>
<li>Knightley, P. (2004). The First Casualty: The War Correspondent As Hero and Myth-Maker From The Crimea to Iraq, United Kingdom: Johns Hopkins University Press.</li>
<li>Luckhurst, T. (2023). Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945, Bloomsbury Academic.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

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<li>"Covering D-Day: An Allied Journalist's Perspective" – a report written by David J. Marcou for British Heritage magazine for the 60th anniversary of D-Day</li>
<li><a href="http://www.scoop-database.com/">Biographical dictionary of 24,000+ British and Irish journalists who died between 1800 and 1960</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Encyclopedia of Journalism (2009). United States: SAGE Publications, p. 1441. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Knightley, P. (2004). The First Casualty: The War Correspondent As Hero and Myth-Maker From The Crimea to Iraq, United Kingdom: Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 4-39. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Kepplinger, Hans Mathias et al. "Instrumental Actualization: A Theory of Mediated Conflicts," Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine European Journal of Communication, Vol. 6, No. 3, 263–290 (1991). <a href="https://www.jstor.org/pss/3650646" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/pss/3650646</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">"Olivier Weber". radionz.co.nz. 3 December 2016. Archived from the original on 5 March 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018. <a href="http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201826322/olivier-weber" target="_blank">http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201826322/olivier-weber</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">"Protection of Journalists | How does law protect in war? - Online casebook". casebook.icrc.org. Retrieved 2021-11-12. <a href="https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/protection-journalists" target="_blank">https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/protection-journalists</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">"WAR CULTURE – War Correspondents". Military History Matters. 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2019-02-12. <a href="https://www.military-history.org/articles/war-culture-war-correspondents.htm" target="_blank">https://www.military-history.org/articles/war-culture-war-correspondents.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Jules Claretie, La vie à Paris, Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1896, p.367 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Walker, Dale L. "Jack London's War."[usurped] World of Jack London website. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121017134905/http://www.jacklondons.net/Journalism/jackLondonsWar.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20121017134905/http://www.jacklondons.net/Journalism/jackLondonsWar.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">Philip Knightley (1982), The First Casualty The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker, revised edition, London, Melbourne, New York, p. 202-203. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">Philip Knightley (1982), The First Casualty The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker, revised edition, London, Melbourne, New York, p. 202-203. <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">In this group of correspondents there were also Captain Charles Tremayne, Captain Arthur Pilkington). More details in Philip Knightley (1982), The First Casualty The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker, revised edition, London, Melbourne, New York, p. 206-208. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Charles_Tremayne&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">/w/index.php?title=Captain_Charles_Tremayne&action=edit&redlink=1</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">Philip Knightley (1982), The First Casualty The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker, revised edition, London, Melbourne, New York, p. 206-208; Luckhurst, T. (2023). Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945, Bloomsbury Academic, p. 25-30. <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">Luckhurst, T. (2023). Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945, Bloomsbury Academic, p. 29. <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:14">Mitchell, Bill (December 9, 2002). "When a Journalist Goes to War". Archived from the original on December 17, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015. <a href="http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/4295/when-a-journalist-goes-to-war/" target="_blank">http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/4295/when-a-journalist-goes-to-war/</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:15">Hammond, William (1998). Reporting Vietnam: Media & Military at War (vol. 1). University Press of Kansas. <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:16">Hammond, William (1998). Reporting Vietnam: Media & Military at War (vol. 1). University Press of Kansas. <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:17">"The war without end is a war with hardly any news coverage". www.niemanwatchdog.org. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-11. <a href="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=569" target="_blank">http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=569</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:19">Hallin, Daniel (1986). The Uncensored War : The Media and the Vietnam War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198020864. <a href="0198020864" target="_blank">0198020864</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:20">Hammond, William (1998). Reporting Vietnam: Media & Military at War (vol. 1). University Press of Kansas. <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:21">Mitchell, Bill (December 9, 2002). "When a Journalist Goes to War". Archived from the original on December 17, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015. <a href="http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/4295/when-a-journalist-goes-to-war/" target="_blank">http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/4295/when-a-journalist-goes-to-war/</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:22">"Joseph L. Galloway". <a href="https://homeofheroes.com/heroes-stories/vietnam-war/joseph-l-galloway/" target="_blank">https://homeofheroes.com/heroes-stories/vietnam-war/joseph-l-galloway/</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:23">Hallin, Daniel (1986). The Uncensored War : The Media and the Vietnam War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198020864. <a href="0198020864" target="_blank">0198020864</a> <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:24">"The persian gulf war - Television". www.americanforeignrelations.com. Archived from the original on 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2015-12-11. <a href="http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Television-The-persian-gulf-war.html#b%2523ixzz1uKXkqB1I" target="_blank">http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Television-The-persian-gulf-war.html#b%2523ixzz1uKXkqB1I</a> <a href="#fnref:24" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:27">Bennett, W. Lance; Paletz, David L. (1994). Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226042596. <a href="0226042596" target="_blank">0226042596</a> <a href="#fnref:27" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:28">Bennett, W. Lance; Paletz, David L. (1994). Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226042596. <a href="0226042596" target="_blank">0226042596</a> <a href="#fnref:28" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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