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Martinez, Monica, Denis Ruellan, and Lassané Yaméogo. "War reporting." Sur le journalisme, About journalism, Sobre jornalismo 11, no. 1 (June 13, 2022): 14–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.25200/slj.v11.n1.2022.472.

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Franks, Tim. "Not War Reporting - Just Reporting." British Journalism Review 14, no. 2 (June 2003): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09564748030142003.

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Busch, Peter. "The Future of War Reporting." RUSI Journal 157, no. 3 (June 2012): 60–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2012.695183.

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Maguire, Thomas ER. "Book Review: Digital War Reporting." Media, War & Conflict 5, no. 2 (August 2012): 193–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750635212448027a.

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McCrystal, Cal. "The Limits of War Reporting." British Journalism Review 11, no. 2 (June 2000): 69–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095647480001100211.

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Lukin, Annabelle, David Butt, and Christian Matthiessen. "Reporting war: Grammar as 'covert operation'." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2004): 58–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v10i1.779.

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While it is often said that 'truth is the first casualty of war', this aphorism covers only one feature of how wars are reported, namely the deliberate use of misinformation by parties to a war. But language is by its nature a higly plastic resource: there is never just one way to report a set of events, even when the 'facts' may be uncontested. Drawing on data from newspaper reports and media briefings of the recent war in Iraq, we illustarte some of the basic grammtical systems which underlie the choice a journalist has to make, particularly in reporting 'high impact' events of the war. Using a functional apporach to grammar—where grammar is seen not as rules but as a theory of reality— we introduce some basic grammatical concepts or undertsanding the idelogical impact if different gramatical choices in contruing the events of war.

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Cohen, Janine. "Conflict reporting: Emotional attachment, a sense of morality and reporting objectively." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 16, no. 1 (May 1, 2010): 113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v16i1.1012.

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This article explores how emotional attachment and a sense of morality often drive journalists to produce great work in areas of conflict, particularly those solo video journalists who produce long format current affairs. But it also questions if a sense of engagement can impede journalist’s ability to report objectively? And how relevant is this ideal today? Former BBC war correspondent Martin Bell changed his view on objectivity after covering the Balkans War. He advocated for a journalism of attachment especially in war zones and amid human suffering. There are some Australian video journalists whose sense of engagement has defined outstanding bodies of work. However, some practices in the field often defy concepts of impartiality. Issues of, if, or when, to put down the camera and give assistance; or how to remain fair and honest to the story while gaining the long term trust of sources, sometimes challenges journalists.

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Markham, Tim. "The political phenomenology of war reporting." Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism 12, no. 5 (July 2011): 567–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884911410016.

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Culbert, David, and Frederick S. Voss. "Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II." Journal of American History 82, no. 3 (December 1995): 1166. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2945127.

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Sweeney, Michael S. "Reporting from the Front: War Reporters during the Great War." American Journalism 32, no. 3 (July 3, 2015): 371–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2015.1064695.

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Chouliaraki, Lilie. "Witnessing War: Economies of Regulation in Reporting War and Conflict." Communication Review 12, no. 3 (August 31, 2009): 215–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714420903124077.

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Hu (胡博林), Bolin. "Reporting China." Journal of Chinese Overseas 17, no. 1 (April 8, 2021): 84–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341435.

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Abstract This article explores how Chinese-language newspapers in Australia reported on China in the period 1931–37. These newspapers made efforts to build support for the Sino-Japanese war and influence Chinese residents in Australia. However, they offered contrasting views of the Chinese government ruled by the Kuomintang. The Tung Wah Times, along with the Chinese World’s News, continued to publish anti-Chiang Kai-shek propaganda, arguing for a strong anti-Japanese resistance. But the Chinese Republic News and the Chinese Times demonstrated support for and understanding of the Chiang government’s dilemma, though the political position of the former was much more fluid. The divergent views revealed the multiple loyalties of Chinese residents in Australia and their active community politics when their population in Australia was declining, and it was a reminder that the diasporic community cannot be homogenized with a collective concept of a “country.” It also reflected their shared identification with the Chinese nation, showing different approaches to building up a strong home country. By shaping their readerships’ Chinese patriotism and nationalism, these Chinese-language newspapers strengthened the connection and allegiances between Chinese in Australia and their homeland.

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Eilders, Christiane. "Media under fire: Fact and fiction in conditions of war." International Review of the Red Cross 87, no. 860 (December 1, 2005): 639–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1816383100184474.

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AbstractThe article reviews recentfindings on the quality of war reporting, the conditions under which it takes place, the information policies of the warring parties and their effects. Focusing on German media coverage of the 1991 Gulf war, the Kosovo war and the 2003 Iraq war, it discusses both typical shortcomings of reporting and recent improvements, highlights information control strategies and proposes standards for war reporting.

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Butler, Judith. "Photography, War, Outrage." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120, no. 3 (May 2005): 822–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081205x63886.

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The phenomenon of “embedded reporting” seemed to emerge with the invasion of iraq in march 2003. it is defined as the situation in which journalists agree to report only from the perspective established by military and governmental authorities. They traveled only on certain trucks, looked only at certain scenes, and relayed home only images and narratives of certain kinds of action. Embedded reporting implies that this mandated perspective would not itself become the topic of reporters who were offered access to the war on the condition that their gaze remained restricted to the established parameters of designated action. I want to suggest that embedded reporting has taken place in less explicit ways as well: one example is the agreement of the media not to show pictures of the war dead, our own or their own, on the grounds that that would be anti-American. Journalists and newspapers were denounced for showing coffins of the American war dead shrouded in flags. Such images should not be seen because they might arouse certain kinds of sentiments; the mandating of what could be seen—a concern with regulating content—was supplemented by control over the perspective from which the action and destruction of war could be seen. Another implicit occurrence of embedded reporting is in the Abu Ghraib photographs. The camera angle, the frame, the posed subjects all suggest that those who took the photographs were actively involved in the perspective of the war, elaborating that perspective and even giving it further validity.

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Taylor, Sandra C., Arnold R. Issacs, and Stanley Karnow. "Reporting History: Journalists and the Vietnam War." Reviews in American History 13, no. 3 (September 1985): 451. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2702105.

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Caferri, Francesca. "Close up. Reporting in times of war." Freedom from Fear 2010, no. 7 (July 18, 2010): 66–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18356/723a80d9-en.

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Zhang, Shixin Ivy. "Chinese-style pragmatic objectivity in war reporting." Asian Journal of Communication 25, no. 2 (October 8, 2014): 178–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2014.944925.

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Smith, Angela, and Michael Higgins. "Introduction: Reporting war – history, professionalism and technology." Journal of War & Culture Studies 5, no. 2 (October 25, 2012): 131–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jwcs.5.2.131_7.

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Kaul, Chandrika. "Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma." Media History 24, no. 3-4 (September 27, 2018): 550–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2018.1525663.

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Loyd, Anthony. "Cleanliness the first casualty in reporting war." British Journalism Review 12, no. 4 (December 2001): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095647480101200403.

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Fine, Richard. "Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma." American Journalism 34, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 492–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2017.1383053.

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Zavaritt, Giovanni. "Book Review: Reporting War, Journalism in Wartime." Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism 7, no. 1 (February 2006): 124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146488490600700111.

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Small, Melvin, and William M. Hammond. "Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War." American Historical Review 105, no. 5 (December 2000): 1773. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2652131.

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Wyatt, Clarence R., and William M. Hammond. "Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War." Journal of American History 87, no. 1 (June 2000): 309. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2568061.

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Ottosen, Rune. "The Media and the Gulf War Reporting." Bulletin of Peace Proposals 23, no. 1 (March 1992): 71–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096701069202300111.

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Kolar-Panov, Dona, and Toby Miller. "Radio and the Civil War: Reporting Yugoslavia." Media Information Australia 62, no. 1 (November 1991): 74–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9106200111.

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Mackness, Bharti, Paul N. Durrington, and Michael I. Mackness. "Low Paraoxonase in Persian Gulf War Veterans Self-Reporting Gulf War Syndrome." Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 276, no. 2 (September 2000): 729–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.2000.3526.

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Dodson, Giles. "REVIEW: 'Digger' media out-manoeuvred by military." Pacific Journalism Review 18, no. 1 (May 31, 2012): 238. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v18i1.303.

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Review of: Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, by Fay Anderson and Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2011, 501 pp, ISBN 978-0522856446 (pbk)Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting provides a thorough-going account of the developments and, importantly, of continuities which have characterised Australian reporting of foreign wars since the 19th century. It is a welcome addition to the growing body of conflict reporting literature, in particular to that which concerns the local experience. It is clear the forces which structure Australian war journalism have remained relatively constant throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Steiner, Linda. "Women war reporters’ resistance and silence in the face of sexism and sexual violence." Media & Jornalismo 17, no. 30 (October 11, 2017): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-5462_30_1.

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Women began reporting on war in the mid-nineteenth century, covering, among other wars, Europeans revolutions and the US Civil War. The numbers of women reporting on war increased over the twentieth century with the First and Second World Wars and especially the Vietnam War. This increased again more recently, when many news organizations needed journalists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Nonetheless, war reporting remains widely regarded as men’s domain. It remains a highly sexist domain. Women war reporters continue to face condescension, pseudo-protectionism, disdain, lewdness, and hostility from their bosses, rivals, military brass, and the public. They also experience sexual violence, although they are discouraged from complaining about assaults, so that they can keep working. This research focuses on the sexism and sexual harassment facing contemporary women war reporters, with particular attention to Lara Logan, whose career demonstrates many of these highly gendered tensions.

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Allen, Chris W. "Reporting World War II for the Local Audience." American Journalism 17, no. 1 (January 2000): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2000.10739221.

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Anderson, Fay. "Good Campers: The History of Australian War Reporting." History Compass 8, no. 10 (October 4, 2010): 1165–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00729.x.

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LOGHIN, Radu-Daniel, and Luminita-Mihaela DUMITRASCU. "Financial Reporting Quality in a Crisis Period." Audit Financiar 20, no. 168 (November 14, 2022): 697–706. http://dx.doi.org/10.20869/auditf/2022/168/027.

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The Covid Pandemic has this far been a devastating event for the world economy, but it wasn’t the only crisis of the 2020 financial period. Despite the health emergency, military conflict has not halted since the dawn of the coronavirus plague. In the current paper the authors try to analyze the combined impact of the COVID pandemic and war for a sample of 352 Turkish and Azeri equities during the 2019 and 2020 financial periods. Their findings suggest that the Nagorno-Karabakh war enforced timeliness for Azeri and Turkish issuers while overall the relevance of financial statements has dropped during the crisis period of 2020. IFRS compliance became a significant moderating factor during the crisis period. Overall, the year 2020 has been a turning point for accounting practice.

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Page, W. F. "VA mortality reporting for World War II army veterans." American Journal of Public Health 82, no. 1 (January 1992): 124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.82.1.124-a.

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Henderson, Schuyler W., William E. Olander, and Les Roberts. "Reporting Iraqi civilian fatalities in a time of war." Conflict and Health 3, no. 1 (2009): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1505-3-9.

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Oosterman, Allison. "Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting." Australian Historical Studies 44, no. 2 (June 2013): 317–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2013.793247.

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Fine, Richard. "The Development of the ‘Pyle Style’ of War Reporting." Media History 23, no. 3-4 (April 2, 2017): 376–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2017.1309269.

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Niblock, Sarah. "Television's Reporting of the Iraq War: Reflexivity or Ratings?" Visual Communication 2, no. 3 (October 2003): 375–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14703572030023009.

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Tait, Richard. "Book Review: Making Sense of War Reporting in Libya." British Journalism Review 23, no. 3 (September 2012): 77–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956474812460475.

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Baylen, Emeritus, J. O. "Images of the Enemy Reporting the New Cold War." American Journalism 6, no. 4 (October 1989): 261–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08821127.1989.10731214.

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Hammond, Philip. "Reporting “Humanitarian” Warfare: propaganda, moralism and NATO's Kosovo war." Journalism Studies 1, no. 3 (August 1, 2000): 365–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616700050081731.

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Hammond, Philip. "Reporting "Humanitarian" Warfare: propaganda, moralism and NATO's Kosovo war." Journalism Studies 1, no. 3 (January 2000): 365–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2010.10094088.

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Braman, Ed. "To what end? War reporting in the television age." RUSI Journal 148, no. 6 (December 2003): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071840308446942.

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Casey, Steven. "Casualty Reporting and Domestic Support for War: The US Experience during the Korean War." Journal of Strategic Studies 33, no. 2 (April 2010): 291–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402391003590689.

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Hammond, Philip. "“Good Versus Evil” After the Cold War: Kosovo and the Moralisation of War Reporting." Javnost - The Public 7, no. 3 (January 2000): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2000.11008748.

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Warrich, Haseeb Ur Rehman, Rooh Ul Amin Khan, and Salma Umber. "Reporting Sino-Indian Border Conflict Through Peace Journalism Approach." Global Mass Communication Review V, no. III (September 30, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-iii).01.

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The study attempts to analyze the coverage of recent Sino-Indian border conflict through peace and war journalism along with understanding how peace journalism ideals can be translated into conflict reporting. The descriptive analysis of news stories published from May 5, 2020, to October 5, 2020, in the mainstream contemporary English press of China (China Daily and Global Times) and India (Times of India and The Hindu) is carried out through content analysis. The period is significant because of the recent border conflict between China and India at Ladakh. The approach of peace and war journalism is explored through in-depth interviews of Indian and Chinese journalists. The study concluded that both Indian and Chinese press employed war framing more dominantly than peace framing while reporting on-going border conflict. A higher instance of peace journalism was recorded in the Chinese press in comparison to the Indian press. The ideals of peace journalism can be achieved by refraining from becoming part of the propaganda paradigm.

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Maule, Alexis L., Patricia A. Janulewicz, Kimberly A. Sullivan, Maxine H. Krengel, Megan K. Yee, Michael McClean, and Roberta F. White. "Meta-analysis of self-reported health symptoms in 1990–1991 Gulf War and Gulf War-era veterans." BMJ Open 8, no. 2 (February 2018): e016086. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016086.

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ObjectivesAcross diverse groups of Gulf War (GW) veterans, reports of musculoskeletal pain, cognitive dysfunction, unexplained fatigue, chronic diarrhoea, rashes and respiratory problems are common. GW illness is a condition resulting from GW service in veterans who report a combination of these symptoms. This study integrated the GW literature using meta-analytical methods to characterise the most frequently reported symptoms occurring among veterans who deployed to the 1990–1991 GW and to better understand the magnitude of ill health among GW-deployed veterans compared with non-deployed GW-era veterans.DesignMeta-analysis.MethodsLiterature databases were searched for peer-reviewed studies published from January 1990 to May 2017 reporting health symptom frequencies in GW-deployed veterans and GW-era control veterans. Self-reported health symptom data were extracted from 21 published studies. A binomial-normal meta-analytical model was used to determine pooled prevalence of individual symptoms in GW-deployed veterans and GW-era control veterans and to calculate combined ORs of health symptoms comparing GW-deployed veterans and GW-era control veterans.ResultsGW-deployed veterans had higher odds of reporting all 56 analysed symptoms compared with GW-era controls. Odds of reporting irritability (OR 3.21, 95% CI 2.28 to 4.52), feeling detached (OR 3.59, 95% CI 1.83 to 7.03), muscle weakness (OR 3.19, 95% CI 2.73 to 3.74), diarrhoea (OR 3.24, 95% CI 2.51 to 4.17) and rash (OR 3.18, 95% CI 2.47 to 4.09) were more than three times higher among GW-deployed veterans compared with GW-era controls.ConclusionsThe higher odds of reporting mood-cognition, fatigue, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal and dermatological symptoms among GW-deployed veterans compared with GW-era controls indicates these symptoms are important when assessing GW veteran health status.

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MORGAN, ELIZABETH. "War on the Home Front: Battle Pieces for the Piano from the American Civil War." Journal of the Society for American Music 9, no. 4 (November 2015): 381–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752196315000346.

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AbstractDuring the Civil War, countless musical works were written about the conflict and marketed to amateur musicians, especially women. Among them were pieces composed in response to recent conflicts, often published within days or weeks of the relevant event. Popular genres included keyboard battle pieces, which depicted some of the most pivotal battles of the war in musical rhetoric, bringing them alive in the minds and imaginations of drawing room performers and audiences.This essay is the first detailed study of American keyboard battle pieces from the Civil War. It investigates how they mirror many aspects of Civil War life, including the civilian demand for vivid war news, especially eyewitness accounts from the front, the advent of telegraphic reporting, and the fallibility of the media in reporting on the war. The pieces also reflect cultural trends of the mid-nineteenth century not related to war, particularly the popularity of theatrical melodrama on the stage and the prominence of virtuosity in piano repertoire. In investigating the performance of battle pieces as a site where women imagined and experienced the perils of war, this article contributes to scholarship that deepens our understanding of how women at home participated in mass culture.

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Marten, James. "The Image of War: The Pictorial Reporting of the American Civil War (review)." Civil War History 42, no. 3 (1996): 266–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cwh.1996.0071.

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Davies, Kayt. "A global evolution in risk reporting." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 16, no. 1 (May 1, 2010): 216–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v16i1.1021.

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Looking around a lecture theatre of students majoring in journalism in an Australian university, it may seem fair enough to ask how important it is to teach them about war reporting. How many of these music, fashion and sport-inspired kids are going to find themselves on a frontline? Reading through Owen and Purdy;s book two rationales emerge. The first is that the era of battle-weary foreign correspondents is waning. The second is that the book brings home importance of our profession's reputation for being unbiased.

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Maniaty, Tony. "From Vietnam to Iraq: Negative trends in television war reporting." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 14, no. 2 (September 1, 2008): 89–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v14i2.946.

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In 1876, an American newspaperman with the US 7th Cavalry, Mark Kellogg, declared: ‘I go with Custer, and will be at the death.’ This overtly heroic pronouncement embodies what many still want to believe is the greatest role in journalism: to go up to the fight, to be with ‘the boys’, to expose yourself to risk, to get the story and the blood-soaked images, to vividly describe a world of strength and weakness, of courage under fire, of victory and defeat—and, quite possibly, to die. So culturally embedded has this idea become that it raises hopes among thousands of journalism students worldwide that they too might become that holiest of entities in the media pantheon, the television war correspondent. They may find they have left it too late. Accompanied by evolutionary technologies and breathtaking media change, TV war reporting has shifted from an independent style of filmed reportage to live pieces-to-camera from reporters who have little or nothing to say. In this article, I explore how this has come about; offer some views about the resulting negative impact on practitioners and the public; and explain why, in my opinion, our ‘right to know’ about warfare has been seriously eroded as a result. Caption: The technology has improved, but the risks do not go away. Freelancer John Martinkus, author of A Dirty Little War about East Timor, seen here on assignment for SBS Dateline in Kunar province, Afghanistan, in 2005, was kidnapped in Iraq—but he managed to escape. Others have not been so fortunate.

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