I'm a sucker for stories about news creation. Despite including the voices of high profile journalists, Dexter Filkins, Anne Garrels, and Richard Engel, this story doesn't provide much insight into the lives or methods of the reporters. Rather, producer Bruce Wallace focuses on the reporters' candid recollections of the early days of the Iraq War.
This piece could be used to illustrate the difference between these backstage asides and the reporters' glossier published/broadcast output.
On the downside, the audio quality of this story is extremely poor, the interviews would benefit from more internal edits, and the narrator could sound more engaged.
Review of In The Beginning - Reporting Iraq
Kerry Seed
Posted on December 06, 2006 at 05:17 AM
I'm a sucker for stories about news creation. Despite including the voices of high profile journalists, Dexter Filkins, Anne Garrels, and Richard Engel, this story doesn't provide much insight into the lives or methods of the reporters. Rather, producer Bruce Wallace focuses on the reporters' candid recollections of the early days of the Iraq War.
This piece could be used to illustrate the difference between these backstage asides and the reporters' glossier published/broadcast output.
On the downside, the audio quality of this story is extremely poor, the interviews would benefit from more internal edits, and the narrator could sound more engaged.