Sentences with phrase «as war reporters»

It's a document about the trauma glimpsed by a person in war, a brief but haunting view of tragedy, made up of footage Hetherington shot while traveling around the world as a war reporter and photojournalist.

A few days, a hastily packed orange rucksack and a nausea - inducing corkscrew descent (apparently it stops the surface - to - air missiles locking on) into Kabul International Airport later, her new life as a war reporter is about to begin.

Canadian author El Akkad drew from his years as a war reporter to craft this disquieting, dystopian story that brings the realities of war to our own doorstep.

Miller was known for her adventurousness as a war reporter, but in many of the images she shows an eye for the everyday human encounter, picturing Picasso as relaxed and humane character rather than the protean monster of legend.

Not exact matches

The team of investigative reporters has broken a number of stories during the current election campaign, including one that dug up Trump's previous statements about his support for the Iraq War, as well as a piece that provided proof that Sen. Rand Paul (R - KY) plagiarized some of his speeches.

But newspaper wars are no small part showbiz, as Gannett proved when it went public — giving an interview to its own USA Today reporter — to complain that Tribune leadership was stonewalling them on their proposal to buy the company.

«There are people that want to try to paint the United States and its allies like Australia as being against China in some sort of rerun of the Cold War,» Turnbull told reporters.

He emphatically insisted on this distinction during a news conference, chastising reporters who had been so short - sighted as to describe it as an act of war.

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.

They do not complain - that is not the Army's way - but the book leaves a sense of grievance that such a powerful and wealthy country as ours should deploy a force less than adequate for the safety of our own people.Excellent war reporters and broadcasters are employed only to give snippets and snapshots.

Walker spent 20 years as a reporter working for Reuters on beats including foreign affairs during the latter years of the Iraq War, and never fancied crossing the Rubicon into politics.

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.

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.

As with all screwballs, of course, there must be a fetching female to spar with, and she soon emerges in the person of Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger), a reporter who's gotten a tip that Carter's war record may not be quite as heroic as advertiseAs with all screwballs, of course, there must be a fetching female to spar with, and she soon emerges in the person of Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger), a reporter who's gotten a tip that Carter's war record may not be quite as heroic as advertiseas heroic as advertiseas advertised.

Gervais and Eric Bana gad about as phony war reporters, but most of this listless Netflix comedy's laughs come from a scene - stealing Vera Farmiga

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Robert Downey Jr. has completed a round of negotiations with Marvel that will see him appear in Spider - Man: Homecoming, and possibly other installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as well (in addition to his preexisting standalone deals for the Avengers: Infinity Wars films).

The study was designed to be a chronicle of American involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1966 for the benefit of future generations of scholars but, as the reporters discovered, the 47 - volume document containing 7,000 pages showed how the government misled the people into thinking that Vietnam was a winnable war while privately conceding that it was not.

As The Hollywood Reporter points out, that's just three weeks before Downey and Holland reunite on the big screen in Avengers 4 — assuming, of course, that they both survive next month's Avengers: Infinity War.

Kicking of his career as a crime reporter and novelist, Fuller soon found his way to Hollywood and after serving in World War Two as an infantryman, became a film director.

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A stagnant relationship combined with a broadcast newsroom that views Afghanistan as a second - tier war that doesn't merit first - string on - camera reporters gets the underused writer to her first conflict zone in 2003.

Actor Temuera Morrison, Jango Fett in the Star Wars prequels, is in negotiations to join the cast of Warner Bros.'s Aquaman as the title character's human father, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Tom Holland has landed the role as the titular hero, making him the latest actor to slip into Spidey's red - and - blues and the first ever to web - swing his way into a Marvel Studios film — which may actually be «Captain America: Civil War» considering The Hollywood Reporter's report saying the actor screen tested with both Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, who stand on opposite sides as Iron Man and Captain America in «Civil War.»

is a movie about many things — a person figuring out her priorities, a reminder of the treatment of women in countries where a religion's rules treat them as second - class citizens, a study of the addictive nature of high - pressure and dangerous situations, a biographical account of a reporter's experience covering a war, a consideration of how the news can abandon one battlefield for another when the public's attention becomes distracted.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a movie about many things — a person figuring out her priorities, a reminder of the treatment of women in countries where a religion's rules treat them as second - class citizens, a study of the addictive nature of high - pressure and dangerous situations, a biographical account of a reporter's experience covering a war, a consideration of how the news can abandon one battlefield for another when the public's attention becomes distracted.

With Gary Whitta having departed the first Star Wars standalone film, and with Simon Kinberg passing on the job, The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that Chris Weitz has signed on as screenwriter.

Daft thriller starring Jon Voight as Peter Miller, a young West German newspaper reporter who's investigating the whereabouts of missing war criminals when a Holocaust survivor's suicide leads him to a sinister association that protects former Nazis.

There are plenty of engaging aspects to Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: ideas about how reporters can become as acclimated as soldiers to the constant, sometimes adrenalized rush of a modern - day forever - war; the fumbling romance between Kim and Iain (consistently punctuated with the sound of morning - after teeth - brushing); the friendly - until - it's - not competition between Kim and Tanya (Fey and Robbie suggest they could do a snappy buddy comedy).

Based on Kim Barker's memoir, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Fey thrives here, staring as Kim Baker - a network copy editor, who in 2003 leaves her desk job behind, to become a conflict reporter in war - torn Kabul.

Happy Hup — Our publisher samples a landmark American runabout of 1910 — the Hupmobile Model 20 / Hunting the Snipe — JonathonWood tracks down a quality car that helped keep the flag flying for Humber / Glorious Goodwood — David Venables reports that this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed was better than ever / Golden Apples — Anthony Pritchard visited Richard Gaylard Shattock now a spritley 86 at his home in Cornwall where he reminisced about his Atlanta racing days / Racing Double — Champagne corks have been popping in Norfolk and in Belgium; Douglas Blain joined the celebrations as both contestant and reporter / Arms and the Argonne — The Argonne forest in the North - East of France saw fierce fighting in the final months of the Great War.

Savill spent eight years working for the BBC and has first - hand experience as a reporter and aid worker in both countries, which lends resonance to a novel sure to appeal to fans of globally minded fiction like Girl at War and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

In 2007, author David Finkel, a Pulitzer - prize winning journalist for The Washington Post, spent several months as an embedded reporter with the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, (also known as the «2 - 16 Rangers»), as they deployed to Baghdad during the Iraq War.

War - scarred American TV reporter Merlin Freeman falls for Jay, but finds that, when making love, she seems to be two different women as Eleanor's spirit fights for possession of Jay's flesh.

«Morano, who worked as a producer in the mid-90s for radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, was also among the first reporters to write about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign scrutinizing Kerry's Vietnam War record.

Local news reporters cite a «war» between cyclists and drivers, as motor vehicles are regularly left parked in bike lanes, and while a perceived lack of bike lane enforcement has become a source of frustration for local cyclists, that could be about to change.

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.