PBS’s international newsmagazine returns for a fourth season with a report on the dangers of covering the war in Iraq, where fifty-four journalists have already been killed during the conflict. The constant barrage of car bombings, ambushes, kidnappings, and beheadings have turned much of the country into a “no go zone” for reporters. FRONTLINE/World cameras follow reporters as they try to do their job and survive in the mayhem of Iraq. Also featured: a dramatic, close-up look at the war in Sudan’s Darfur region including interviews with rebel army leaders and the African peacekeeping troops trying to end the killings.
Stories from the Graduate School of Journalism included in this season premier:
Cassandra Herrman – Alumna 2001 “The Quick and the Terrible,”
This 24-minute story on the humanitarian and political crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region, where over 70,000 have died in what the U.S. calls genocide. This is Casey’s fourth story for the series.
Serene Fang & Monica Lam – Alumnae 2004 “Silenced,”
Co-Produced and Photographed by Monica Lam, “Silenced”is a report on the Muslim Uighur minority in western China, and a journalist’s nightmare Serene experienced trying to cover the story. A longer version of their TV story will appear on the FRONTLINE/World web site as well. Both the Sudan and China stories were edited at the FRONTLINE office at the Journalism school.
Brent McDonald – Alumnus 2004 “Toward Justice”
In the spring of 2004, FRONTLINE/World Fellow Brent McDonald followed UC Berkeley anthropologist Beatriz Manz to Central America to uncover the history of a village that was caught in the crossfire of Guatemala’s civil war.
His FRONTLINE/World Fellows project on Guatemala was launched on the FRONTLINE/World web site in December: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/fellows/guatemala/index.html
About FRONTLINE/World fellows program:
The Fellows program is designed to encourage curiosity and creative thinking about the world, foster personal narrative and journalistic voice, and reward intelligent, genuinely innovative work. All FRONTLINE/World Fellow stories will receive the same hands-on mentoring and stringent editorial scrutiny as do stories currently published on the FRONTLINE/World Web site or broadcast on the FRONTLINE/World television series.
Take a look at the official site for more information and stories.