Kevin Sites is Yahoo!’s first news correspondent, covering a number of major global conflicts for “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone” on Yahoo! News in the last year. These areas of conflict are typically left uncovered or under-reported by mainstream news organizations. The goal of this project has been to bring these important stories to Yahoo!’s global audience of nearly 400 million users.

Sites has spent the past five years covering global war and disaster for several national networks. Sites helped pioneer solo journalism, working completely alone, traveling, and reporting without a crew. As a solo journalist (“SoJo”), Sites carries a backpack of portable digital technology to shoot, write, edit, and transmit multimedia reports.