Sentences with phrase «as war correspondents»

It's as bad as war correspondents who embed themselves with the troops and lose all perspective.

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.

Much like serving as a war correspondent, «starting a business requires every bit of imagination, and creativity, and energy, and gumption that you've got,» Hindy says.

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.

Steve Hindy took an unconventional path to entrepreneurship: He went to Beirut as a war correspondent for the Associated Press.

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.

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.

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

This features prominently in the history of the region and recalls the siege of Ladysmith, the exploits of Winston Churchill as a War Correspondent and the battles at Spioenkop, all set against the glorious backdrop of the Drakensberg Mountains, known to the Zulu people as Ukhahlamba or «Barrier of Spears».

Smith worked as a war correspondent for Flying magazine (1943 - 44), and a year later for Life.

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.

Not exact matches

Mark is also a published travel writer and has dabbled as a correspondent from fictitious war zones for the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.

We caught Arthur Kent, the former NBC war correspondent known as the â $ œScud Studâ $ during his reports from the first Gulf war, on Jesse Brownâ $ ™ s Canadaland podcast this week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As a correspondent for the CBS EVENING NEWS, Alfonsi covered wars and was the lead reporter on many domestic and international stories for the network, including the school shootings at Virginia Tech.

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.

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.

Alongside Mitchum, Burgess Meredith is beautifully restrained as Ernie Pyle, the famed war correspondent who accompanied many such units and reported what he saw.

«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.

They are as much war correspondents as they are humanitarian aid workers, and much of what the world knows about crimes against humanity is due to their reporting.

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.

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.

During WWII he worked as a foreign correspondent (a role that he took up again during part of the Vietnam War (1966 - 67).

Alexander Frater is an Australian travel writer and journalist who has contributed to various UK publications - Miles Kington called him «the funniest man who wrote for Punch since the war» - and as chief travel correspondent of the Observer, he won an unprecedented number of British Press Travel Awards.

Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve.

When he was posted to Africa in 1990 as the paper's chief war correspondent and Africa Bureau Chief, he grew eager to understand the Congo River (formerly known as the Zaire River) through a personal odyssey.

He began his career as a foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade during the Bosnian civil war, working for a number of publications including The Times and Sunday Times, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, the Guardian, the Observer, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the Independent.

By now, many — perhaps most — readers have already seen the segment of Monday night's episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in which correspondent Aasif Mandvi satirized the cat - bird debate (described all too accurately, I'm afraid, by Mandvi as an «intractable war»).

Joining Peter Greenberg is legendary CBS Correspondent Bill Plante, who talks about his remarkable 52 - year career at the network, and his travels along the way — from covering civil rights in Selma, Alabama, the war in Vietnam, his years as the White House correspondent for the network, and many other pointCorrespondent Bill Plante, who talks about his remarkable 52 - year career at the network, and his travels along the way — from covering civil rights in Selma, Alabama, the war in Vietnam, his years as the White House correspondent for the network, and many other pointcorrespondent for the network, and many other points in between.

Telling the story of war correspondent Robert Hawkins as he fights hand - in - hand with resistance fighter during the Warsaw Uprising, Enemy Front will have you visiting some locales in Europe that have never before been seen in a video game.

One of them is Room 101 (2003): a plasticised cast of a studio in BBC Broadcasting House — the very room that is supposed to have been occupied by George Orwell during his time as a correspondent in the second world war.

Hirsch worked as an artist - correspondent during World War II, sketching planes and hospitals throughout the Pacific.

Yet they work to educate humanity and develop solutions rather than just reporting on the calamity as though they were war correspondents.

Vollmann is an award - winning author and war correspondent once described as the most «ambitious, audacious writer working in America today» and tipped as a plausible Nobel Prize for Literature candidate.

Reporters on the ground in Iraq as well as news organizations throughout the world are maintaining blogs devoted to war coverage, such as the fascinating text, photo and audio blog by CNN correspondent Kevin Sites.