Covering Afghanistan: Journalists
talk about reporting on Afghanistan, 16th March 2011
posted Jan 27,
2011 11:54 PM by Sarah Glazer
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updated Feb 7,
2011 9:49 AM
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Deborah Haynes, Defence
Editor for the Times, and Heidi Kingstone, Afghanistan-based reporter
for Canada’s National Post and The Huffington Post,
discuss the challenges of presenting an accurate picture of Afghanistan.
Moderator: Biographer Anne Sebba, former Reuters foreign correspondent
and author of Battling for News, her book profiling women war
correspondents.
Deborah Haynes, Defence Editor
for the Times, has reported as a war correspondent from Afghanistan and
Iraq. Her award-winning series about the threat of death for Iraqi
interpreters following the withdrawal of British troops led to Britain
offering asylum and compensation to hundreds of former Iraqi employees
who had worked as interpreters for British forces. Heidi Kingstone
(The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The Independent,
Vogue, The Guardian, Prospect, The Huffington Post, National Post),
who has reported on various topics from The Sudan, Bangladesh, DRC,
Iraq, Israel, and has been based in Kabul for the past year will
be interviewed
by Anne Sebba, author of Battling for News: The Rise of the
Woman Reporter, and most recently of Jennie Churchill: Winston's
American Mother. Anne Sebba is also the biographer of Laura Ashley
and Enid Bagnold and is author of the forthcoming That Woman,
a biography of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. |
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