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Never in the fifty years that I have been in or around the news business have I read a better record of a historic event than this.-Reese Schonfeld, founding president of CNN This should be required reading in every journalism class from high school to graduate school.-James W. Crawley, president of Military Reporters and Editors Following in the footsteps of best-selling books about the war, Reporting Iraq is a fully illustrated narrative history of the war by the world's best-known reporters and photojournalists. Included are contributions from fifty journalists, including Dexter Filkins (the New York Times correspondent who won widespread praise for his coverage of Fallujah), Rajiv Chandrasekaran (author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City), Anthony Shadid (the Washington Post reporter awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Iraq reporting), and Patrick Cockburn (from London's Independent). In this, the first book to tell the history of the war through the end of 2006, the deadliest period of conflict, we learn that most journalists saw a disaster in Iraq before they were allowed to report it. This revelation, along with hundreds of untold first-person stories, makes Reporting Iraq afascinating look at the war and an important critique of international press coverage. Reporting Iraq is published in conjunction with the Columbia Journalism Review, America's premier media monitor and watchdog of the press in all its forms, from newspapers and magazines to radio, television, wire services, and the web.

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A searing document, one of the most revealing chronicles of the war yet published. It is as though correspondents are talking late into the night, trying to explain what it was like, what sights and smells haunt them, what they're proud of and what they regret, what they saw coming and what they didn't. <br>--Anthony Swofford, The Washington Post <br> [A] fascinating account of trying to report on a war unprecedented in its danger for the media.... The reporters' accounts here are notable for their studied neutrality. Blood flows, bodies and limbs pile up. They hear the whistle of bullets and whoosh of mortars. <br>-- Los Angeles Times <br> A terrific new resource for understanding what really happened--and is happening--in Iraq. A gritty and gripping narrative history of the run-up to war to the present quagmire. <br>-- The Nation <br> [A] harrowing portrait of what it was like to live and work in Iraq as the country rapidly descended into chaos. <br>-- Forbes <br> An excellent oral history... Being conversational, Reporting Iraq is much easier to read than a long news story. It is also blunt, and the reader may be thankful that it is organized so it can be taken in small doses. <br>-- The Seattle Times<br> <br> Describes the dangers reporters face trying to cover a conflict where just looking foreign makes you suspicious and where roadside bombs are a random and constant threat. <br>-- The Chicago Tribune <br> Free from the constraints of objective journalism, the reporters hold nothing back and paint an almost uniformly bleak picture of life in post-Saddam Iraq.... While Reporting Iraq is unlikely to win reporters any new friends--especially among those who already hold them in low regard-- the book offers the serious reader a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the Baghdad press corps. <br>-- The Houston Chronicle <br> [A]n intimate look at the stories behind the stories reported out of Iraq. The reporters offer early observa

[A] fascinating account of trying to report on a war unprecedented in its danger for the media.... The reporters' accounts here are notable for their studied neutrality. Blood flows, bodies and limbs pile up. They hear the whistle of bullets and whoosh of mortars. <br>-- Los Angeles Times <br> A terrific new resource for understanding what really happened--and is happening--in Iraq. A gritty and gripping narrative history of the run-up to war to the present quagmire. <br>-- The Nation <br> [A] harrowing portrait of what it was like to live and work in Iraq as the country rapidly descended into chaos. <br>-- Forbes <br> An excellent oral history... Being conversational, Reporting Iraq is much easier to read than a long news story. It is also blunt, and the reader may be thankful that it is organized so it can be taken in small doses. <br>-- The Seattle Times<br> <br> Describes the dangers reporters face trying to cover a conflict where just looking foreign makes you suspicious and where roadside bombs are a random and constant threat. <br>-- The Chicago Tribune <br> Free from the constraints of objective journalism, the reporters hold nothing back and paint an almost uniformly bleak picture of life in post-Saddam Iraq.... While Reporting Iraq is unlikely to win reporters any new friends--especially among those who already hold them in low regard-- the book offers the serious reader a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the Baghdad press corps. <br>-- The Houston Chronicle <br> [A]n intimate look at the stories behind the stories reported out of Iraq. The reporters offer early observations that don't make it into journalistic reports: changes in the expectations that Americanswould be greeted as liberators, the personal perils of everyday life, the distancing from the action as Iraqis became more suspicious of journalists, and changes in perceptions of the American mission in Iraq....More illuminating than straightforward reporting. <br>--Booklist <br> The interviews make clear the difficulties in obtaining accurate information during war and insurgency. Many of the journalists developed good working relationships with Iraqi citizens, and they talk about how the war has changed their own lives forever. An enlightening look at the Iraq war. <br>-- Library Journal

A searing document, one of the most revealing chronicles of the war yet published. It is as though correspondents are talking late into the night, trying to explain what it was like, what sights and smells haunt them, what they're proud of and what they regret, what they saw coming and what they didn't. <br>--Anthony Swofford, The Washington Post <br> [A] fascinating account of trying to report on a war unprecedented in its danger for the media.... The reporters' accounts here are notable for their studied neutrality. Blood flows, bodies and limbs pile up. They hear the whistle of bullets and whoosh of mortars. <br>-- Los Angeles Times <br> A terrific new resource for understanding what really happened--and is happening--in Iraq. A gritty and gripping narrative history of the run-up to war to the present quagmire. <br>-- The Nation <br> [A] harrowing portrait of what it was like to live and work in Iraq as the country rapidly descended into chaos. <br>-- Forbes <br>

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"Mike Hoyt is the executive editor of the ""Columbia Journalism Review,"" the monthly magazine and website that is the country's most esteemed media monitor, and is affiliated with the Columbia University's prestigious Journalism School. Hoyt has worked at the magazine, both as a writer and editor, since 1986. Prior to that he was a newspaper reporter, a copy editor at"" Business Week,"" and a freelance journalist. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he now resides in New Jersey. John Palattella is the literary editor of ""The Nation"" and former editor at large of the ""Columbia Journalism Review,"" as well as a former special projects editor at ""Lingua Franca."" His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including ""The Nation,"" the L""ondon Review of Books,"" ""Bookforum,"" ""Boston Review,"" the ""Los Angeles Times Book Review,"" and the ""Washington Post Bookworld."" He lives in Brooklyn."

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