<< Reading List <<
General
Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy, by Alex S. Jones
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting, by John Maxwell Hamilton
International News Reporting: Frontlines and Deadlines, by John Owen and Heather Purdey
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All, by Tom Fenton
Coups and Earthquakes, by Mort Rosenblum
Who Stole the News? by Mort Rosenblum
On the Front Lines of the Cold War, by Seymour Topping
Blood and Sand, by Frank Gardner
Citizens of London, by Lynne Olson
Foreign Correspondence, by Geraldine Brooks
People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East, by Joris Luyendijk
Without Fear or Favor, by Harrison Salisbury
The Wayward Reporter, by A.J.Liebling
All Governments Lie, by I.F.Stone
AP: The Story of News, by Oliver Gramling
Kent Cooper and the Associated Press, by Kent Cooper
Breaking News: How The Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else, forward by David Halberstam
Deadline Every Minute: The Story of United Press, Joe Alex Morris
Through Their Eyes: Foreign Correspondents in the United States, by Stephen Hess
Foreign Devil: Thirty Years of Reporting from the Far East, by Richard Hughes
Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent, by Nicholas Daniloff
Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story, by Ruth Gruber
News From No Man’s Land: Reporting the World, by John Simpson
Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent, by Georgie Anne Geyer
Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media, by Nick Davies
The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution, by Maurice Walsh
For Reuters people past and present
Conflict Reporting
The Fall of Baghdad, by Jon Lee Anderson
The Lion’s Grave, by Jon Lee Anderson
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, by Anthony Shadid
Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR’s Correspondent Anne Garrels
Standard Operating Procedure, by Philip Gourevitch
Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, An Oral History, by Bill Katovsky
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005, by Thomas E. Ricks
Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Ravi Chandrasekaran
The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins
Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: The Exile of Robert J. Cox, by David Cox
Muddy Boots and Red Socks: A Reporter’s Life, by Malcolm W. Browne
Once Upon A Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett – Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles, by William Prochnau
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975, by Milton J. Bates
Tell It to the Dead: Stories of a War, by Donald Kirk
Dispatches, by Michael Herr
War Torn: The Personal Experiences of Women Reporters in the Vietnam War, by Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas, and Edith Lederer
Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya, by Anne Nivat
In Harm’s Way: Reflections of a War Thug, by Martin Bell
The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq, by Phillip Knightley
Under Fire, by Jacqueline Sharkey
Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War, by John J. Fialka
The Military and the Press: An Uneasy Truce, by Michael S. Sweeney
The Media and Peace: From Vietnam to the ’War on Terror’, by Graham Spencer
Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War, by Philip Seib
Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents, by Ulf Hannerz
Frontlines: Snapshots of History, by Nicholas Moore and Sidney Weiland
Unembedded: Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting, by Scott Taylor
War Reporting for Cowards, by Chris Ayres
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death, by Susan D. Moeller
Am I Dead Yet?: A Journalist’s Perspective on Terrorism, by John Scully
Changing Media
The Al Jazeera Effect, by Philip Seib
When News Lies, by Danny Schechter
Digital War Reporting, by Donald Matheson and Stuart Allan
Free For All: The Internet’s Transformation of Journalism, by Elliot King
New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age, by Natalie Fenton
Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get, by Ken Doctor
Alternative Journalism, by Chris Atton and James F. Hamilton
From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology, by David D. Perlmutter and John Maxwell Hamilton
Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive; a Digital Literacy Guide for the Information Age, by Mark Briggs
Managing Media Convergence: Pathways to Journalistic Cooperation, by Kenneth C. Killebrew
Information Age Journalism: Journalism in an International Context, by Vincent Campbell
Practising Global Journalism: Exploring Reporting Issues Worldwide, by John Herbert
Journalism and New Media, by John V. Pavlik
Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing, by Mark Briggs
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, by Henry Jenkins
The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness, by Barbie Zelizer
Photojournalism
Inferno, by James Nachtwey
Photographer, by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Requiem: By Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina, by Horst Faas
Slightly Out of Focus, by Robert Capa
Capa: A Biography, by Richard Whelan
Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism, by Howard Chapnick
W. Eugene Smith: Photographs, 1934-1975, by W. Eugene Smith
Africa, by Sebastiao Salgado
Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq, by Thorne Anderson, Rita Leistner, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, and Kael Alford
Farewell to Bosnia, Gilles Peress
Evidence, by Gary Knight
Photojournalism: An Essential Guide, by David Herrod
Photojournalism: The Professionals’ Approach, by Kenneth Kobré
Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers, by Ken Light
Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism, by John G. Morris
Photojournalism and Today’s News: Creating Visual Reality, by Loup Langton
Reza War+Peace: A Photographer’s Journey, by Reza Deghati
War is Only Half the Story: The Aftermath Project. Volume 1, by Jim Goldberg and Wolf Böwig
This is War: Witness to Man’s Destruction, by Moises Saman
Red-Color News Soldier, by Li Zhensheng
Digital Photojournalism, by Susan C. Zavoina and John H. Davidson
Visual Journalism: A Guide For New Media Professionals, by Christopher R. Harris and Paul Martin Lester
Photos That Changed the World: The 20th Century, by Peter Stepan
Practical Advice
Fact Sheet on Foreign Press Credentials, Society of Professional Journalists
Afghanistan: Crosslines Essential Field Guides to Humanitarian and Conflict Zones, by Edward Girardet and Jonathan Walter
On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations, Committee to Protect Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Codes
International Journalists' Network e-Learning
International News Safety Institute
Reporting Human Rights and Humanitarian Stories: A Journalist's Handbook, International Centre for Humanitarian Reporting
The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records, by Charles N. Davis and David Cuillier
Computer-Assisted Research: Information Strategies and Tools for Journalists, by Nora Paul and Kathleen A. Hansen
The Investigative Reporter's Handbook, 5th Edition, by Brant Houston and Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
Career Opportunities in Journalism, by Jennifer Bobrow Burns
Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages, by Mindy McAdams
Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide, by Andy Bull
The World on a String: How to Become a Freelance Foreign Correspondent, by Alan Goodman and John D. Pollack
News University Free Course - International Reporting Basics