Ap Foreign Correspondents in Action : World War II to the Present (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. Getting ready, getting started, and getting lost in translation; 3. What's the story? News judgment, news pitches; 4. Getting to the sources (and keeping them alive); 5. Being an American abroad ? perceptions of journalists; 6. Eyewitness reporting: getting to the scene; 7. The costs of being there to count the bodies; 8. Your byline today, mine tomorrow: teamwork and competition; 9. Access, censorship, and spin: relating with foreign governments; 10. Flacks, spooks, and objective journalists: relating with the US government abroad; 11. Getting it out, getting it edited: filing news and handling editors; 12. The evolving milkmen: writing for an audience; 13. Purpose and influence of foreign correspondence; 14. Eight decades of bearing witness and telling the world's stories: conclusions.