Dangerous future for war correspondents - interview with Tony Maniaty

Former war correspondent, film consultant and professor at the University of Technology, Sidney, Tony Maniaty, believes that the future of war correspondents are more dangerous.

It's been a part of military strategy in the context of an invasion, that the journalists either covers the war with the militaryout, and in turn the military ensures the journalist's safety, or the journalist covers the war entirely on their own.

Survival is therefore to draw on experience from other war correspondents, to familiarize themselves thoroughly into the country, to use security guards if possible and always to expect that journalists are just as suitable victims of for example a terrorist entity, like any other.

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[leleballack984]

Very very interesting, thanx for sharing!

[TomthatiscalledTom]

I was 26 when I went to Timor in 1999. I knew a fellow journalist who was killed in the militia violence. I feel an affinity with this guy.

[kensington25]

Excellent interview. He lectures me at UTS and is awesome :)

[rayofla]

Thanks for posting interview.