WHAT IS FREELANCE JOURNALISM? by Brian Scott. WHAT IS FREELANCE JOURNALISM?
By Brian Scott Freelance journalism is one of the more hectic forms of freelance writing. If you want to become a successful freelance journalist, you'll need to be comfortable with spending much time hunting down stories, traveling from place to place, and writing under short deadlines. If you enjoy all of that, and if you're interested in some of the best opportunities for personal creativity, then freelance journalism may be for you.
When we talk about freelance journalism, we need to distinguish between two types: newspaper journalism and magazine journalism. Additionally, writing as a newspaper journalist means that you need the ability to find out about the news. Information-gathering goes on for most of the day, usually ending around evening. More leeway is available with the larger "feature" articles. For example, the film section may only appear on Fridays, the food section on Tuesdays, etc. How do you scout out freelance journalism jobs? Reporters, commentators conduct an in-depth postmortem of Iraq war's media coverage. UC Berkeley Web Feature Reporters, commentators visit Berkeley to conduct in-depth postmortem of Iraq war coverage By Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter | 15 March 2004 BERKELEY – The U.S. invasion of Iraq was without a doubt the most widely and closely reported war in military history.
At the start of the war last March, as many as 775 reporters and photographers were traveling as "embedded journalists" with U.S. forces, with hundreds more taking their chances outside the Humvees. The availability of cheap, portable technology such as digital video cameras and teleconferencing equipment made coverage of this war ever more immediate and intimate, giving the impression that events were being recorded in real time exactly as they happened. Journalism_real_final_v2.pdf (Obiekt application/pdf) Embedded journalism: A distorted view of war - Opinion, Media. Many allegations against the system of "embedding" journalists, mainly with the American or British military, are unfair.
Accompanying armies in the field is usually the only way of finding out what they are doing or think they are doing. Nor is there an obvious alternative way for correspondents to operate today. Given that al-Qa'ida and the Taliban target foreign journalists as potential hostages, it is impossible to roam around Iraq or Afghanistan without extreme danger. The dangers of embedded journalism, in war and politics. FRONTLINE/WORLD . Iraq - Reporting the War . Dangerous Deadlines . Flash Version.
Introduction By Dave Johns According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 2004 was the deadliest year for journalists in the last decade.
They died disproportionately in one place: Iraq. Deteriorating security conditions caused by the growing insurgency make Iraq the world's most dangerous place for journalists today. Of the 56 journalists killed worldwide last year, more than 40 percent lost their lives in Iraq. On paper, all journalists are protected from harm when reporting from a war zone. An early hint that Iraq was moving in this direction came with the assassination of Richard Wild, a British cameraman, outside a Baghdad museum in July 2003. News organizations responded by holing up inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Reporting_war.pdf (Obiekt application/pdf) Journalism Ethics in Wartime by Karen Slattery and Erik Ugland. Kevin Sites had no intention of igniting an international firestorm when he videotaped a U.
S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last month. But that is precisely what his release of these incendiary images has done. Sites is a freelance journalist who was working for NBC and shooting pool video when the incident occurred. Like others who have captured a shocking image of battle on tape, Sites had to decide whether to conceal the video, to protect a soldier and his leaders, or to share the pictures with the rest of the world. He chose to tell the truth. Sites' dilemma was one that has vexed American journalists since they began covering U. There are a myriad of approaches to examining a moral conflict, but our focus here will be on the wartime journalists' conflicting loyalties. War Journalism Resources. War Journalism ResourcesResolving Ethical Conflicts in Wartime Journalists face unprecedented ethical pressures during times of war.
Popular patriotic passions, the demands and strategic interests of the government, cultural and national sensitivities and traditional journalistic responsibilities are often on a collision course. The Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists advises journalists to “Seek Truth and Report It” and to “Minimize Harm” — obligations that are frequently in conflict, as are the other two major obligations in the code: “Act Independently” and “Be Accountable.” Antczak.pdf (Obiekt application/pdf) Journalism during wartime. - By Jack Shafer. The first-person pieces ( New York Times, Boston Globe, CBC, MTV, Slate, et al.) by reporters who've completed "media boot camps" in preparation for covering the Iraq attack should prime us for the sight of gut-wagons wheeling back from the front piled high with journos.
In piece after piece, combat-inept reporters undergo multiple simulated deaths as their trainers attack them with mock mustard gas, grenades, and bullets. "You just ran into a mine field! " a soldier/instructor hollers at a network correspondent in the San Francisco Chronicle's account. DZIENNIKARZ.PRV.PL. Nie lubią określenia korespondent wojenny.
Tłumaczą, że choć jeżdżą w miejsca konfliktów, przecież nie siedzą cały czas w okopach.