POLIS panel discussion
Date: Saturday 13 February 2010
Time: 10.30am-12pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Stephen Grey, Andrew Mueller, Ros Wynne-Jones
Update, Tuesday 9 February: Due to speaker illness, Andrew Mueller has replaced Sam Kiley on this panel.
Update, Monday 18 January: Stepehn Grey has replaced Janine Di Giovanni on this panel.
A discussion of war journalism in its historical context. How the great correspondents of the past managed to tell the world about conflicts around the globe. And how in the digital age, governments and the military seek to prevent free reporting of war. Can we ever really report objectively and openly on war?
Stephen Grey is is an award-winning British investigative journalist, author of Ghost Plane: The Untold Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme and Operation Snakebite: The Explosive True Story of an Afghan Desert Siege.
Andrew Mueller is a journalist and author of I Wouldn't Start From Here: the 21st Century and Where it all Went Wrong. Among various misadventures in more than 70 countries, Andrew Mueller has reported on the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the lifting of the siege of Bihac, the handover of Hong Kong, the invasion of Iraq, the wartime rock’n’roll scene of Sarajevo, an Elvis Presley festival in Tupelo and Ukraine’s efforts to launch Chernobyl as a tourist destination.
Ros Wynne-Jones is a freelance journalist and author and formerly the Daily Mirror's senior feature writer. Her novel Something is Going to Fall Like Rain, about south Sudan, is published by Reportage Press.
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