Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War

by Anthony Feinstein

Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine

As journalists in Iraq and other hot spots around the world continue to face harrowing dangers and personal threats, neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein offers a timely and important exploration into the psychological damage of those who, armed only with pen, tape recorder, or camera, bear witness to horror. Based on a series of recent studies investigating the emotional impact of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801884411
• ISBN13: 9780801884412
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This book is essential reading for journalists and camera operators working in hazardous environments. It is well-written and well-researched. A must read!

Interesting for Journalists

A worthwile study but too bad it was only about journalists in the late80's, and the 90's --there is much information from the 60's and70's not addressed at all--Vietnam and Cambodia for example. I think of this as Ed Bradely and Kate Webb recently passed on and they were part of that era. Or, to put it another way, a book I wish I had before I went or during the time I was a journalist in Southeast Asia.

Freelancers as well as affiliated journalists are covered.

Any college-level collection strong in journalism must have JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HAZARDS OF COVERING WAR. Where many books outline the achievements of such journalists, too few focus on the impact of such coverage. Chapters survey what drives and destroys war reporters, come from a professor of psychiatry, and survey the culture and realities of war reporting, a process that eats up and spits out many a career journalist. Freelancers as well as affiliated journalists are covered. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch