Please mark your calendar for Kevin Sites' lecture, Monday Feb. 16, 2009, 7 p.m. at the Young Auditorium.
Kevin Sites, a pioneer of solo journalism, was labeled by Times Magazine as " the web's best war correspondent." In November 2004, as an NBC News correspondent, he filmed and reported on one of the defining moments of the Iraqi war when he videotaped a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi insurgent in a Fallujah mosque. Sites was honored with the Payne Award for ethics in journalism for his courage of the event. As Yahoo!'s first news correspondent, he spent an entire year covering every major global conflict for the award-winning documentary " Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone." His web site won a 2007 Webby for the Best News/Documentary/Public Affairs site for its coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah War.
(From Contemporary Issues- Lecture Series, Spring 2009)
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ReplyDeleteI've always been a fan of Sites style of writing yet, I don't believe he is a good reporter. What I'd like to point out is that no man can accurateley report about multiple conflicts in an year. Sites also lacks understanding of many conflicts. I do wonder how a man can report on a story while using a translator.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should just go over to Rwanda, korea, sudan, and report on thier conflicts without prior knowledge about the situtation. May be I can win a pulitzer prize.
I wonder if Sites knows the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite
~just a thought~