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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Timeline -- Acknowledgements -- Women in the hot zone -- By Melissa Roberts and Trevor Watson -- PART ONE: BREAKING NEWS -- 1. Exodus from Ukraine -- Barbara Miller -- Ukraine March 2022, Europe 2013-2016, ABC -- 2. Kate Geraghty: Somewhere north-east of Kyiv -- Ukraine 2022, The Sydney Morning Herald -- by Trevor Watson -- 3. The fall of the Soviet empire: Lessons for Putin -- Monica Attard -- Moscow 1989-1995, ABC -- 4. The face collectors of techno-authoritarian China -- Cate Cadell -- Beijing 2014-2021, Reuters |
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5. Dispatches from Afghanistan: 'Better write an obit' -- Anna Coren -- Kabul 2022, CNN -- 6. High value target: Running from the Taliban -- Lynne O'Donnell -- Kabul 2001-2021, AP, AFP, various -- 7. The last correspondent in the Beijing bureau -- Kirsty Needham -- Hong Kong 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age -- 8. The accidental correspondent -- Tracey Holmes -- China, Middle East 2001-2012, ABC, CNN, CGTN -- PART TWO: MAKING HISTORY -- 9. Lorraine Stumm: A correspondent who saw too much -- Hiroshima 1945, London Daily Mirror -- by Melissa Roberts |
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10. Diane Willman: No place for young women -- Beirut 1969-1979, ABC, CBC -- by Trevor Watson -- 11. Bin Laden and the Land of the Pure -- Amanda Hodge -- Pakistan 2011, The Australian -- 12. Shells slammed into the earth: Dispatches from a Syrian village -- Ruth Pollard -- Syria 2012, The Sydney Morning Herald -- 13. Hope restored in a Syrian oasis -- Yaara Bou Melhem -- Syria 2019, SBS and ABC -- 14. Rania Abouzeid: The taste of fire and smoke -- Beirut 1999-present, freelance -- by Trevor Watson -- 15. The Hamas lonely hearts club of Gaza -- Diaa Hadid -- Gaza 2009, AP |
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16. Kate Webb: A life from a Graham Greene Novel -- Cambodia 1971, UPI, AFP -- by Trevor Watson -- 17. A reporter's notebook: 'Fortune favours the foolish' -- Ginny Stein -- Correspondent at large 1997 -- present, ABC, SBS, freelance -- 18. Morning in America and a night out with Malcolm -- Janine Perrett -- New York 1985-1989, The Australian -- PART THREE: BEING A CORRESPONDENT -- 19. What's news? -- Emma Alberici -- London 2008-2012, ABC -- 20. Crossing the line: One man's life or the story -- Sophie McNeill -- Jerusalem 2015-2018, ABC -- 21. Once upon a time in India -- Melissa Roberts |
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Delhi 1981-1983, freelance -- 22. Hitching to the aftermath of a genocide -- Candace Sutton -- Central Africa 1994, The Sun-Herald -- 23. Forgiveness, justice and luck in West Africa -- Prue Clarke -- Liberia 2004, The Times -- 24. The arc bends slowly -- Kylie Morris -- The Middle East, Asia, US 1999-2019, BBC, Channel Four News -- 25. Margaret Jones: This amazing intrusion -- China 1973-1976, The Sydney Morning Herald -- by Trevor Watson -- 26. 'Race Traitor' -- Sue-Lin Wong -- China, Hong Kong 2014 -- present, Reuters, Financial Times, The Economist -- 27. A fight for freedom in paradise |
| Summary |
Australia's women correspondents tell their stories of working at the frontline around the world |
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Women journalists -- Australia -- Anecdotes
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Foreign correspondents -- Australia -- Anecdotes
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Women journalists -- Australia -- Social conditions
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Reporters and reporting -- Australia -- Anecdotes
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Women in journalism -- Australia -- Anecdotes
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Women in the mass media industry -- Australia -- Anecdotes
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Foreign correspondents.
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Reporters and reporting.
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Women in journalism.
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Women in the mass media industry.
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Women journalists.
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Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Anecdotes.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Roberts, Melissa, editor
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Watson, Trevor (Foreign correspondent), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781743589090 |
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1743589093 |
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