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War reporting

October 2023

  • Amanda Meade

    The weekly beast
    The curious case of Seven’s voice artwork, ABC licks wounds after defamation loss

    Amanda Meade
    The work created for SBS voice portal used during 7Plus referendum coverage. Plus: Courier Mail goes rosy over newsreader’s wedding proposal

September 2023

  • Kiyoshi Tanimoto at a ruined Hiroshima church in 1946.

    ‘Then the black rain fell’: survivor’s recollections of Hiroshima inspire new film

    The 230-page unpublished memoir will reflect the horrors suffered by ordinary Japanese citizens in a feature-length drama

August 2023

  • Wooden crosses at a mass burial site in the forest near the town of Izium

    Ukraine: A War Crime – a book by photographers documenting the war’s first year

    Ukraine: A War Crime is about the first year of the war in Ukraine and the many photographers who risked their lives to tell this tragic story. The book is a collection of photographs and witness accounts by 93 photojournalists from 29 countries. The images and reportage contributed by these brave photographers and citizens who covered the conflict and humanitarian catastrophe reveal not only the indiscriminate violence and displacement of millions of people but also the first-hand experiences of working in a war zone Published by FotoEvidence in September
  • Dmitry Muratov in Moscow in the Channel 4 documentary.

    Paying the price of truth: Nobel peace laureate Dmitry Muratov won’t be silenced by Putin

    The Russian newspaper editor speaks from Moscow in an exclusive interview as a new film biography charts his defiance of the Kremlin during the war in Ukraine
  • Feargal Keane

    Observer New Review Q&A
    The BBC’s Fergal Keane: ‘The breakdowns get harder to recover from each time’

    The former BBC war reporter, now special correspondent, on the terror of PTSD, his tips for living with it day to day, and the people and poets he admires

May 2023

  • Train cake displayed with recipe book.

    Australian arts in focus
    Remembering the Australian Women’s Weekly birthday cake book: ‘A phenomenal cultural icon’

    A new exhibition tells the 90-year history of a famous Australian magazine through knitting patterns, pioneering journalism and, yes, cakes
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets Rishi Sunak in London.

    Today in Focus
    Has Ukraine’s spring offensive begun?

    Ukraine claims its forces have retaken land around Bakhmut and shot down Russian missiles targeting Kyiv. Luke Harding reports on the state of the war
  • Arman Soldin’s selfie with a cat.

    French journalist killed in Russian rocket strike in Ukraine

    AFP video coordinator Arman Soldin, 32, who was ‘totally dedicated to his craft’, died in attack near Bakhmut

April 2023

  • People try to flee the fighting in Khartoum by taking buses that travel in convoys at night to neighbouring countries.

    A war for our age: how the battle for Sudan is being fuelled by forces far beyond its borders

    A bloody chaos with a cast of warlords, chancers and cynical exploiters, the latest conflict in Africa has parallels with Syria
  • Third Anniversary Of The Kubra Hall In Yemen 2019<br>SANAA, YEMEN  OCTOBER 08: Flowers laid by Huda, 16, Hashem, 13, and Ahmed, 7, on the rubble of the bombed Al Kubra hall where their father was killed, on the third anniversary of the 2016 Sana'a funeral airstrike on October 08, 2019 in Sanaa, Yemen. Huda, 16, Hashem, 13, and Ahmed, 7, are the children of Radwan al-Khazan, who was one of the 155-victims, and visit the Kubra hall only one time per-year when the annual anniversary is held. The October 8, 2016 Sana'a funeral airstrike took place in the afternoon when 155 people were killed and at least 525 more wounded when two airstrikes, about three to eight minutes apart, hit the packed Al Kubra hall in Sana'a, Yemen during a funeral. The attack was the deadliest single bombing in the then five year long Yemeni civil war. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories – podcast

    The horrors of this conflict, and the lives it has taken, must not be kept hidden. As the bombs continue to fall around us, I have gathered these witness testimonies as a memory against forgetting. By Bushra al-Maqtari
  • The Guardian documentary
    Born in Damascus: the legacy of Syria's war for two separated cousins

    Laura, a Scottish-Syrian film-maker, reconnects online with her cousin Lujain after 10 years apart. Their paths were separated by war, and now Laura hopes to reconstruct the past by sharing memories and family videos

March 2023

  • Mosul aftermath for a car bomb (p. 398)

    Observer book of the week
    A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad review – 20 years of frustration and fury in Iraq

  • Members of the Ukraine media at a press briefing in Kyiv about Russian missiles on Thursday, almost a year into the invasion

    A year of war in Ukraine
    Ukraine’s reporters adapt amid media restrictions and pressure of war

February 2023

  • Oksana Tkach shows a photo of her husband Denys Tkach

    Today in Focus
    Searching for the first casualty of the war in Ukraine

  • Vasyl Baidak and Iryna Terekhova, from the documentary The Year that Never Ended, directed by Anton Shtuka

    A year of war in Ukraine
    The year that never ended: how a Ukrainian comedian rebuilt a stranger’s house

January 2023

  • Protesters in Rio De Janeiro with a banner calling for justice for the murdered Guardian contributor Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who were killed in June 2022.

    More journalists killed in Latin America and Caribbean than Ukraine in 2022

    Committee to Protect Journalist reports region accounted for almost half of the 67 deaths worldwide

November 2022

  • Yeva Skalietska: ‘the poise and precision of her language are extraordinary’

    Book of the day
    You Don’t Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska review – Ukrainian child’s poignant diary

  • Fergal Keane reporting from Bambari, in the Central African Republic for BBC News

    The Madness by Fergal Keane review – running towards a world of pain

October 2022

  • Martha Gellhorn Rehearses Cast of Play<br>(Original Caption) 6/24/1946-London, England- Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles, American authors who served as war reporters during World War II, flew to England to attend opening night of their play, "Love Goes to War," based on their experiences in Italy. The authors are shown with members of the cast at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, London. Left to right: Ralph Michael, who plays a public relations officer in the British army; Virginia Cowles; Martha Gellhorn; and Irene Worth, who plays one of the woman correspondents.

    In brief: Motherthing; Night Terrors; Looking for Trouble – review

    A gripping, darkly humorous horror novel; the strange world of sleep; and the reissue of a dazzling wartime memoir

September 2022

  • Photographer Don McCullin. 
Photo by Linda Nylind. 26/08/2022.

    War photographer Don McCullin: ‘Wherever I go, there seems to be violence and death’

    From Vietnam to Biafra, he captured war and suffering with shocking power. The great photographer talks about his tough childhood, the film Angelina Jolie is making about him – and the shots that still haunt his sleep
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