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Women like Mary Roberts Rhinehart have been reporting from conflict zones since WWI (1914-1918). But it took women like Christiane Amanpour to finally shatter the glass ceiling among war correspondents during the Gulf War (1990-1991). Now the archives of print and TV news organizations are replete with reports by female war correspondents, including Marie Colvin,… Read more.
Just as it is with the Occupy Wall Street protests, one of the seamier aspects of the Arab Spring protests has been the sexual assaults against female protesters that have gone unreported. The glaring exceptions of course were those occasions when a member of the American media was the victim. Such was the case last… Read more.
CBS News released a statement on Tuesday concerning veteran war reporter Lara Logan, which read, in full, as follows: On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a 60 Minutes story when she and her team and… Read more.
