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Great
Iraq Conflict Coverage Gallery
Note: New work will continue to
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Related links:
This page includes:
Weblogs and Diaries from
Embedded Journalists
 | BBC
Reporters' Log: At war in Iraq: A great, frequently updated group Weblog
from BBC's correspondents in the Gulf. |
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St. Petersburg
Times Online Journal: Times staff photographer John Pendygraft is attached
to the HMM 365 Marine Helicopter Squad on missions in and around Kuwait and Iraq
and has been filing powerful photos and words to a Weblog using a high-speed
satellite phone for voice, e-mailand photo transmission. |
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PilotOnline.com -
Dispatches from the Middle East: Dennis O'Brien of The Virginian-Pilot
reports and shoots photos while embedded with Marines in Kuwait; Matt Dolan,
with photographer Chris Tyree, reports from the Truman group. |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter M.L. Lyke and
photographer Grant M. Haller are among a group of journalists embedded with U.S.
forces on board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and Lyke is writing a
continuous Weblog for seattlepi.com about her experiences, called Aboard the USS
Abraham Lincoln. |
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CNN.com On The
Scene: An interactive map showing where CNN correspondents and anchors are
stationed around the Middle East; clicking on them calls up their latest video
and audio reports. |
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PBS Online NewsHour Dispatches from Qatar: NewsHour producer Gregg Ramshaw,
on assignment to cover the military buildup in the Gulf, reports on finally
clearing Customs and the scene at the media center in Doha, Qatar. |
| NBC's
Dispatches from the Front: Video and Web-exclusive stories from NBC News
correspondents in the Gulf. |
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MTV: Gideon's Journeys In Kuwait: MTV's Gideon Yago has been filing daily
journals to MTV.com about life as an embed in Kuwait -- written in a much more
casual style than most war reports. He's also taking pictures and publishing
"photo diaries." |
| CNN's Kevin Sites Blog:
CNN Correspondent Kevin Sites has been filing regular updates -- including
photos and audio -- to
a blog on his personal site, KevinSites.net. Much more casual -- more like
a non-journalist blog -- than blogs on news sites. He's also recently added
archived excerpts from his war diaries from time spent covering previous
conflicts in Chiapas, Afghanistan and Kosovo. |
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TelevisionWeek War Journals: TelevisionWeek is asking embedded journalists
at the front to share what it is like to be there, how they live, how they
interact with the military and local citizens and how they are surviving.
Includes several fascinating reports and more are continuing to be added. |
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Christian Science Monitor: Assignment: Kuwait:
Christian Science Monitor Online Producer Ben Arnoldy is embedded
with a military unit in the Gulf and has been answering questions online that
readers e-mail in, in addition to sending daily updates. Check out the questions
readers are asking and see how they differ from most of the stories being
written about the war. |
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Jerusalem Post: Audio reports from the field: Correspondent Janine Zacharia
files compelling audio reports from aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the
eastern Mediterranean for the newspaper's Web site:
USS Roosevelt Is Ready;
Bombing Practice Under Way;
Watching and Waiting. |
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Washingtonpost.com's Leiby on Embedded Troops: The Washington Post's Richard
Leiby spoke to washingtonpost.com's Suzette McLone via satellite phone from
Kuwait City and the site posted the video online. |
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WABC-TV NY
At Camp Commando: WABC-TV's N.J. Burkett is filing Reporters' Notebooks and
slide shows to 7Online.com on life at Camp Commando in Kuwait. |
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ABC11 - With Our Troops: ABC 11 reporter Keith Garvin is in Kuwait and will
be with a combat unit First Marine Expeditionary Force from Camp Lejeune. In
addition to on-air reports, Keith is writing this web-only diary. Also
includes slide shows and archived versions of his on-air video reports. |
|
Belo Dispatches: Dozens of dispatches from Belo Interactive reporters
embedded in the Gulf and covering the conflict with Iraq. |
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StarTribune.com -
Multimedia: Audio, video and photo reports from Minneapolis Star Tribune
reporters in the Gulf. |
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NewsChannel 5 -
Dana Kaye's Journal: Reporter Dana Kaye and Photojournalist Mark Martin are
filing regular written and video reports, and Kaye is also filing journal
entries about life in Kuwait with the 101st Airborne troops. |
| News
& Observer: Bridge to the Front: Jay Price and Chuck Liddy file written and
video reports to the Web on life with the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division
in Kuwait. |
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TheSanDiegoChannel.com: 10News reporter and military expert Bob Lawrence and
photojournalist Richard Klein are in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and filing daily diary
dispatches to the Web site. |
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Poynter.org - Crittenden's Notebook: Boston Herald reporter Jules Crittenden
is embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and filed these reports on
life as an embedded journalist. |
Other Iraq-related Weblogs
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Knight Ridder War Watch: War Watch is a Weblog of news and commentary
related to the war with Iraq, edited by SiliconValley.com editors John Murrell
and John Paczkowski. What's particularly interesting about this Weblog is that
Knight Ridder is running it on many of its local news sites (such as
philly.com and
miami.com) thanks to its network-wide publishing system. |
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HamptonRoads.com -- Journal: Marijo, Navy Spouse: Weblog of a woman who's
husband is on a ship in the Gulf. The site plans more family Weblogs. |
| MSNBC.com's
Army Family Journal: A part-multimedia, part-text Weblog by the wife of a
soldier sent to Kuwait, it offers a very different perspective on the war. |
| WBUR.org:
Iraq Update Weblog: What's particularly of note about this Weblog is that it
includes audio reports from NPR. |
| MSNBC.com:
World Reax: Compiled from reports from NBC News and MSNBC.com correspondents
overseas. |
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Poynter.org - Homefront:
Local coverage of war-related news, including impact on lives back home,
anti-war initiatives, and various military angles. |
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Poynter.org Coverage Diary:
Notes from journalists covering various dimensions of the Iraq conflict,
especially focused on journalistic questions, challenges, and lessons learned. |
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Poynter.org Dispatches:
Links to coverage of the Iraq conflict by journalists reporting from overseas. |
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Slate: Bloghdad: William Saletan
is watching the war. |
| Defense Tech: Blog
on technology and national security by freelancer Noah Shachtman. |
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The Seattle Times - Battle Lines |
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NJ.com: War in Iraq |
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The Guardian:
Weblog
special: Iraq |
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MSNBC.com: Weblogs of War |
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Ventura County Star War Blog
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Spokesman-Review
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USA Today Iraq War
Weblog |
Multimedia
|
Shooting video for the Web in Iraq: Travis Fox, a video journalist
for WashingtonPost.com, has filed great footage of coalition troops in Umm Qasr,
Iraq, building a prisoner of war camp. For most of his stories, Fox uses a Sony
PD150, a roughly $7,000, 12-pound digital video camera with a five-hour battery.
The gear is less than half the weight and one-tenth the cost of equipment used
by crews for large networks. (If you're interested in how washingtonpost.com
does such great multimedia work online continually,
read CyberJournalist.net's Q&A with Tom Kennedy, who oversees the
operations.) |
|
NYTimes: Weapons of Fear: Judith Miller narrates a nice audio slide show
looking at weapons of mass destruction. |
|
St. Petersburg
Times Online Photo Journal: Times staff photographer John Pendygraft is
attached to the HMM 365 Marine Helicopter Squad on missions in and around Kuwait
and Iraq and has been filing powerful photos and words to a Weblog using a
high-speed satellite phone for voice, e-mailand photo transmission. |
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NYTimes.com Audio: On the Kuwait-Iraq Border: The Times's Dexter Filkins
describes the scene from a position in northern Kuwait along the Iraqi border. |
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StarTribune.com
MultiMedia Reports: Multimedia from Star Tribune correspondents in the
Mideast. Star Tribune newspaper photographer Mike Zerby is filing video from the
Marine camp where he is embedded in Kuwait (for the moment): Among them are
videos of
troops getting their final briefing and
taking their oath. |
| Reuters Raw Iraq Video:
Reuters has launched a free streaming video feed online that shows raw
war-related footage such as government briefings and footage from on the ground
in Iraq -- including battlefield images. The service is free, although Reuters
plans to charge for it eventually. |
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Jerusalem Post: Audio reports from the field: Correspondent Janine Zacharia
files compelling audio reports from aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the
eastern Mediterranean for the newspaper's Web site:
USS Roosevelt Is Ready;
Bombing Practice Under Way;
Watching and Waiting. |
|
Washingtonpost.com's Leiby on Embedded Troops: The Washington Post's Richard
Leiby spoke to washingtonpost.com's Suzette McLone via satellite phone from
Kuwait City and the site posted the video online. |
|
NYTimes.com's Iraq Journal: A Land of Open Secrets: John F. Burns and Tyler
Hicks of The Times explore an Iraq seldom seen by outsiders. First in a
series. |
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CBC: 3 Exiles:
This Flash presentation combines audio, video, text and still pictures to tell
the story of three Iraqi exiles living in Canada. All went through the 1991 Gulf
War, fled the country and now fear for what is going to happen. |
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Washingtonpost.com Auto-Launching Iraq Video: Go to washingtonpost.com's
Iraq coverage section and a video clip of the latest headlines greats you
immediately. "Welcome to Confronting Iraq, washingtonpost.com's home for
breaking news and analysis." Jessica Doyle then runs through the top stories of
the day and on the site. A great way to bring video to users. Watch for more
sites to start doing this. |
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StarTribune.com -
Multimedia: Audio, video and photo reports from Minneapolis Star Tribune
reporters in the Gulf. |
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Knight Ridder: Iraq Photo Spotlight: Wide range of photo essays on
everything from chemical attack training to Iraqi weapons markets. |
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MSNBC.com: The BigPicture: Powerful multimedia package using video and live
votes to cover the "Big Picture" of the conflict. |
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MSNBC.com: Urban Combat: A
movie-like Flash presentation heavy on video about the risks of urban combat
that U.S. forces may face in Baghdad, narrated by MSNBC’s Lester Holt. |
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USA Today: Waiting
for War: A great Flash interactive, built into the site's main Iraq coverage
page as the centerpiece, that includes an audio slide show, a look at world
reaction to the conflict, details on Saddam's inner circle, and more. |
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BBC: Reader
Photos from War Protests: Millions of people marched worldwide in protest
against a possible war against Iraq -- and hundreds sent in photos to the BBC.
Great way to involve readers in the story. Here are the slide shows BBC Online
published with those photos. |
Interactive Graphics &
Stories
| Urban Warfare animation: Now that the fight has moved
to Baghdad, sites are rolling out their interactive elements exploring the risky
nature of urban combat. CNN.com posted
a clickable graphic and paired it with
a neat, though unnarrated, animation of what street fighting might be like.
MSNBC.com updated a 4-minute-long
documentary-style multimedia package on the dangers and challenges of urban
warfare. Newsweek repurposed
this impressive magazine graphic and added audio. The BBC took explanatory
approach, creating
a Flash package looking at what's involved in attacking a city and defending
a house, plus includes a history of urban warfare. |
|
WP Troop Tracker: Deep interactive that tracks day-by-day action and adds
history, antiwar info, and photos via other tabs. |
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USA Today Chronicling Iraqi Freedom: Flash graphic showing day-to-day
action. |
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Guardian War
Tracker: Comprehensive, easy-to-understand Flash graphic showing all the war
action, and continually updated. |
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MSNBC Latest Action: Interactive map showing war action day-by-day. |
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Newsweek - Exploring Iraq: Newsweek.com has built a neat interactive map of
Baghdad, showing the top targets on a satellite map you can zoom in and out on
and scroll around. |
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Guardian: Battle
for Basra: Detailed flash animation of the battle for this key city,
published before the attack and well before others had such detail. |
| The
Jutland-Post - 3D Iraq Map: The Jutland-Post (Jyllands-Posten) has an
interesting 3D-map of Iraq with main a few basic things like oil-fields, cities
and military forces. |
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Tribune - Attack scenarios: Quicktime movie from the Chicago Tribune
illustrating how an attack might develop. |
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CBC: An
Illustrated View: What Canada’s editorial cartoonists have to say
about the conflict with Iraq. |
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Associated Press: Weapons Systems
A look at U.S. weapons systems. Good use of animation to show how they work. |
|
AP: U.S. Reserves State-by-State Breakdown: The Associated Press has put
together a nice interactive showing how many reservists have been called into
action from each state. |
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BBC News: Iraq navigator:
Very
well-done Interactive
map that let's users zoom in and out and learn more about suspected weapons
sites, presidential palaces, Baghdad, oilfields and other places of interest. |
|
BBC News: Iraq: Key maps: An interactive map looking at all the troops in
the Gulf region and their role in the conflict. The map format enables a reader
to get a good feel for how forces are spread out around Iraq. |
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CNN.com U.S. Military deployments: Comprehensive map of U.S. troop
deployments in the Gulf, by state. |
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CNN.com: Chemical and Biological weapons: Interactive looking at the weapons
Iraq has used in the past and is believed to still have. |
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CNN.com: Iraq's Military: Summary of Iraq's military power and intelligence. |
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MSNBC interactive: Target Iraq: Roll over the icons on the map for an
expert's view of the sites linked with Iraq's leadership infrastructure,
including satellite photos. |
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Newsweek Interactive: The Future of War: Interactive presentation about
military weapons of the future, with 3D images and narration from experts. |
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The New York Times: Troops in the Gulf Region: An interactive map that let's
users zoom in to learn where Iraq's forces are believed to be.
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Special packages and other
work
| AOL's personalized war coverage:
It’s a shame AOL content is only accessible to AOL members, because the company
is doing some interesting things with its war coverage. AOL members are
uploading photos of and letters from soldiers abroad. And last week AOL News
launched a neat customized feature, "U.S. Forces Alerts," which enable AOL
members to receive war news alerts whenever particular military units they care
about are covered in the news.
Continue reading "AOL's
personalized war coverage"... |
|
CNN War
Tracker: Packed with the latest information about battles, airstrikes,
casualties and even a chart of Iraqi surrenders. |
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CNN.com Weapons: Impressive catolog of details on U.S. arms arsenal. |
|
War in Iraq -
Online Homepage Gallery: At 10:15 p.m. EST Thursday, President Bush
announced that the United States and its allies had launched a campaign to
liberate Iraq. Poynter Online has collected screenshots of news websites over
the 45 minutes that followed. |
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NYTimes.com Forum:
NYTimes.com readers from around the world discussed
the news as it broke in the Nation at War forum. One NYTimes.com reader cried
"Not in my name" while another called the beginning of the war in Iraq "a step
in human rights." |
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PilotOnline:
Messages for Deployed Troops: Being in a Navy town, The Virginia-Pilot's
coverage online is heavy with involvement of the families of deployed sailors,
including a fantastic "guestbook" of hundreds of messages to troops from family
members. |
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USA Today: Waiting
for War: A great Flash interactive, built into the site's main Iraq coverage
page as the centerpiece, that includes an audio slide show, a look at world
reaction to the conflict, details on Saddam's inner circle, and more. |
|
Scholastic: America Prepares for War: Don't forget about news for kids. This
special report on the Iraq conflict site has been up since August. Packed with
military news and information aimed at kids, plus information for teachers on
how to deal with war in the classroom. |
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CNN: Iraq Tracker: A
one-page summary of the lastest news each day, with links to more complete
coverage. |
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NYTimes.com:
Dispatches: A weekly column written expressly for nytimes.com by Michael R.
Gordon, The Times's chief military correspondent. |
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BBC News: Military Fact Files: Details about U.S., UK and Iraq
military forces. Very well designed -- tons of information, but it's easy to
navigate from one "fact file" to another. |
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MSNBC:
Oil: The other Iraq war: Special project exploring how energy factors into
the Iraq conflict. |
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