Sentences with phrase «women war correspondents»

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.

Not exact matches

A woman who worked as a war correspondent for NBC News said Tom Brokaw groped her, twice tried to forcibly kiss her and made inappropriate overtures attempting to have an affair, according to two reports published Thursday.

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.»

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.»

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.

Six years ago in Kabul, Afghanistan, military contractor Bobby Taggart bedded Talia Levine, a woman who claimed to be a war correspondent.

McLain revisits the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn — a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century.

He's the former geeky schoolboy who becomes a sexy foreign correspondent and knocks the socks off all the women at his high school reunion with his war wounds.