War correspondents have also found it a compelling way to capture the chaos around them.

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Most victims were not foreign war correspondents, but rather local journalists who were working in countries at peace.

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However, the majority of victims were not war correspondents, but local reporters covering illegal activities such as drug trafficking or illegal logging.

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In 1993, Marcel Ophuls went to Sarajevo, which was under siege, to film this epic documentary (running almost four hours) about war correspondents at work.

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The great majority of the victims were not foreign war correspondents but local journalists who were generally working on issues of local interest in countries at peace.

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This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough.

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Hersh is no doubt traveling light compared to the war correspondents of the past, but putting him and a photographer on the ground in Egypt, and producing and disseminating their work in a polished fashion, still costs real money, the kind a corporate parent like News Corp. brings to the table.

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Post-war lobby correspondents wrote with a delicacy practically unknown amongst their present-day successors.

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Rooney was part of a generation of reporters who got their starts as military correspondents during World War II.

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