Sentences with phrase «war correspondents in»

Martha, or Marty, is an aspiring writer and world traveler, two passions that lead her to become one of the first female war correspondents in modern history.

Penny Colman's book, Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II tells the stories of some of the women reporters who fought to cover the news.

The careers of some of those women are highlighted in Penny Colman's book, Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II.

It is a historical novel about a war correspondent in the 1940's — fascinating read!

A former war correspondent in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and settles in a small town in Northern California, where he lands a job with the local newspaper on the crime beat, but he quickly realizes the bohemian area has some secrets that certain people do not want disturbed.

Fey plays Kim Barker, a woman who decided, while riding a stationary bike in Manhattan, that she wanted to go be a war correspondent in Afghanistan, saying, «I was tired of pedaling and going nowhere.»

This 1946 drama was adapted from the novella Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor, an American author who had served as a war correspondent in London and interviewed many U.S. troops.

His father, Sir Anthony Bowlby, first Baronet Bowlby, was surgeon to the King's Household, but with a tragic history; at age five, his own father (John's grandfather) had been killed while serving as a war correspondent in the Anglo - Chinese Opium War.

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During his time as a war correspondent for the Associated Press, Steve Hindy's interest in home brewing was sparked by a group of American diplomats he met while he was working in the Middle East.

How the Brooklyn Brewery Co-Founder's War Correspondent Days Helped Him Succeed in Entrepreneurship

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Far from hurting CNN, Trump's war against it has amounted to a form of product placement — «earned media,» you could say — giving its anchors and correspondents starring roles in the ongoing political drama, turning them into camera - ready warriors for the First Amendment.

Foreign correspondents commented on all the major anti-Jewish actions taken by the Nazis in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia prior to World War II.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Welby has described the work of foreign correspondents and war reporters as a «God - given calling to inspire others to serve our common humanity», which helped motivate people to care about what was going on elsewhere in the world.

Chris Hedges, a former war correspondent and author of War Is a Force Which Unites Us, describes the seductive quality of martial power as a narcotic that can provoke in whole societies a self - righteous deliriwar correspondent and author of War Is a Force Which Unites Us, describes the seductive quality of martial power as a narcotic that can provoke in whole societies a self - righteous deliriWar Is a Force Which Unites Us, describes the seductive quality of martial power as a narcotic that can provoke in whole societies a self - righteous delirium.

Fowler went even further afield in his missionary work when, as a war correspondent, he took along a big supply of chile peppers and spices to Vietnam.

He was then employed with CBS News, first as a war correspondent for throughout the 1970s, and later as their Africa Bureau Chief in 1977.

His image as a heroic war reporter was encapsulated by film footage of him appearing to lead the liberation of Kabul in 2002, although this was overshadowed by the appearance of the BBC's Kabul correspondent greeting him warmly.

The all - inclusive committee, which is to be headed by the first governor of Bayelsa State, Chief D.S.P Alamieyeseigha, our correspondent learnt, would be inaugurated today (Friday), barring any unforeseen contingency, with the mandate to harmonise all warring factions within the major stakeholders of the PDP in the oil - rich state.

According to residents who spoke with Nigeria Politics Online correspondent said the attack was the third in space of a month describing it as riot, war and inhumane.

Amid a bitter war of words between the Trump administration and the Fourth Estate, plans for the 2017 White House Correspondents» Association Dinner in April have been thrown into turmoil.

During World War II (1939 - 1945), White served as a special correspondent for the New York Post in Europe and Japan.

But the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in an interview with one of our correspondents on Sunday said contrary to the opposition party's claim, Buhari returned with bags of goodies that included agreements in oil and gas as well as support for the country's ongoing anti-terrorism war.

He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and received a Bronze Star for his work as editor and correspondent for the military newspaper Southern Cross.

The President, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Malachy Ugwummadu, also told our correspondent that if the Federal Government was serious about engaging in total anti-corruption war, it should look within and name ex-PDP chieftains who were now in the APC.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: October 31, 1914 The articles by «The Military Correspondent of the Scientific American» were probably written by an American army officer.

In the mid-1980s, Paul Moorcraft, then a war correspondent, journeyed with a film crew into Afghanistan to produce a documentary about the fifth anniversary of the Soviet invasion.

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Based on the novel by Joseph Kanon, The Good German takes place in the ruins of post-World War II Berlin, where U.S. Army was correspondent Jake Geismar (Clooney) becomes embroiled with Lena Brandt (Blanchett), a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt by both the American and Russian armies.

The one - too - many lovers are played by the talented Oscar Isaac as medical student wannabe Mikael; Christian Bale as Chris, an American war correspondent; and blossoming international star Charlotte Le Bon as Ana, an American tutor based in Constantinople.

Dano next stars in Paolo Sorrentino's «Youth» and the miniseries «War & Peace,» while Macdonald will soon be seen in Ricky Gervais «Netflix comedy «Special Correspondents.»

Fey stars as real life war correspondent Kim Barker, whose novel The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan has here been adapted for the screen by Fey's fellow 30 Rock / Saturday Night Live / Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt scribe Robert Carlock.

Stanley Tucci has enlisted in «A Private War,» the upcoming movie about famed war correspondent Marie Colvin, Variety has learnWar,» the upcoming movie about famed war correspondent Marie Colvin, Variety has learnwar correspondent Marie Colvin, Variety has learned.

«Film fans already know what they want for their 2016 holiday present, as they count down the days till December 16 when the next Star Wars story opens in theaters,» says Fandango Chief Correspondent Dave Karger.

Initially stuck in a rut back in New York, Kim opts to leave behind her boyfriend (Josh Charles) and head to the front lines, trying her hand at being a war correspondent.

The book recounts Barker's arrival in Kabul, what it was like being a woman in wartime Iraq and Pakistan, and dealing with spurts of boredom and violence in a «promiscuous war - correspondent culture.»

This movie, which is based on the real events of war correspondent Kim Barker (as told in her book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan), forces you to bed the question as to its authenticity.

The Story of G.I. Joe William Wellman, USA, 1945, 35 mm, 108m Robert Mitchum's extraordinary, Oscar - nominated performance as the stoic, exhausted, and quietly beleaguered Lieutenant Walker in this adaptation of correspondent Ernie Pyle's dispatches from the war in Europe, made him a star.

Pike is playing famed war correspondent Marie Colvin in the thriller that's told from the front lines of the most dangerous battlefields in the world.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Unrated) Adaptation of «The Taliban Shuffle,» war correspondent Kim Barker's (Tina Fey) memoir about her relationship with a fellow journalist (Martin Freeman) while covering Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Kate Winslett to star in biopic of American fashion model, photographer and war correspondent Elizabeth «Lee» Miller.

According to THR, his next film will instead be The Last Photograph, about a war correspondent and the conflict in Afghanistan.

That second Hitchcock movie was «Foreign Correspondent,» produced by Walter Wanger: a top - notch melodrama of international intrigue and nail - biting suspense that was set in the early days of World War II.

In spite of ongoing opposition from military personnel and male reporters, however, 127 women correspondents managed to cover many of the important stories of that war.

Their father, Andrew, sequesters himself in his study writing scathing restaurant reviews and remembering his glory days as a war correspondent.

A burned - out war correspondent hoping for a last hurrah in Afghanistan arrives on the Afghan border just as American bombs begin falling on the ruling Taliban in this fast - paced, timely, and galvanizing novel.

In The Red Book, her touching, provocative, whip - smart romp of a novel where The Big Chill meets Mary McCarthy's The Group, Kogan begins with the Red Book entries for a group of roommates from the class of 1989 who are all headed for their 20th reunion weekend just as the financial and professional walls are crumbling around them: a self - made, childless securities broker, recently pink - slipped, eager to conceive a baby before her fertility window closes; a blue - blood «artist» and former lesbian, married to a writer's - blocked male novelist, living disingenuously and beyond their means off a no - longer - viable trust fund; a former actress, the star of every school production, who has become the stay - at - home wife to a famous Hollywood director; the adopted war orphan, now a foreign correspondent clinging to her dying industry, whose war journalist husband has recently been killed.

In this slim but emotionally expansive memoir, she dives deep into her marriage with M., a former war correspondent (now director & screenwriter).

Previously, she was a foreign correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro and before that she covered the conflicts that led to the war in Kosovo.

Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego.