Sentences with phrase «of war correspondent»

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.

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 film offers a fresh look at the adrenaline - laced lifestyle of war correspondents and a timely criticism of TV news.

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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.

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.

Jay Solomon, Wall Street Journal correspondent and author of «The Iran Wars,» discusses the rocky relationship between Iran and the United States following a travel warning from the State Department.

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.

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.

A former New York Times foreign correspondent, Hedges got some attention for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a 2002 book drawn from his twenty years of field reporting on armed conflicts.

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.

Amid its hodgepodge of topics — female war correspondents, the decorating challenged, moms who are mean to their kids, crime victims who forgive their assailants, and, oh yes, the quest to lose weight — Oprah stresses a message: Make yourself happy.

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.

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.

Days after Trump declared war on the press, calling the media «the enemy of the people» and canceling his appearance at the upcoming White House Correspondents» Dinner, the White House press corps got a shot of support from one of America's most beloved actors: Tom Hanks.

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.

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.

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.

By Aide - de-Camp Xavier Sager The War in the Sky Special Correspondent of the Scientific American at the Front

The Story of G.I. Joe was based on the columns of Scripps - Howard war correspondent Ernie Pyle (Burgess Meredith).

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.

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.»

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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.»

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.

Like a war correspondent who finds herself or himself powerless to affect a war's outcome, a husband with a 16 - or 17 - year - old daughter at odds can only stand on the sidelines and offer words of reason that the womenfolk are usually too incensed to absorb.

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.

Aviron Pictures has acquired Serenity, a thriller with Oscar - winners Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, and A Private War, a portrait of Marie Colvin with Oscar - nominee Rosamund Pike playing the legendary war correspondent, Variety has learnWar, a portrait of Marie Colvin with Oscar - nominee Rosamund Pike playing the legendary war correspondent, Variety has learnwar correspondent, Variety has learned.

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.

She recently made a radio documentary about being a war correspondent with renowned radio producer Jay Allison of Transom.org.

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

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.

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.

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.

school campaign, Access Hollywood correspondent and former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent introduced a series of moving and thought - provoking pieces that included students reading First World War poetry, a school choir, a live link - up to a Canadian school and an interview with Invictus Games gold medal winner and veteran Mickaela Richards.

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.

With World War II finally coming to an ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has managed to wangle one of the coveted slots for the Potsdam Conference.

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.

Intrepid correspondent Hockenberry covered the war in the Middle East in a wheelchair, but that's only one of many triumphs in a life steeped in adversity.

Narrated by Destiny, this heartbreaking - and timely - story of refugees escaping from war - torn Syria is masterfully told by a foreign news correspondent who experienced the crisis firsthand.

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.

This illuminating perspective on World War II reportage shows how questions of race followed troops to the battlefields and how black correspondents — allowed on the frontlines for the first time — reported it.

Hunting bin Laden War correspondent Rob Schultheis remembers his first encounter with al - Qaeda back in 1984 — «an encounter that came within a split second of costing me my life.»