Yahoo! Plans War Coverage
Yahoo! said Monday it will add the role of online news generator to its familiar role as news aggregator with firsthand reports from areas of armed conflict around the world.
Starting later this month, the portal company plans to feature reports by Kevin Sites, a veteran television correspondent, to be the single source of news for “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone.”
Mr. Sites, 42, is a self-styled multimedia journalist who often works as a one-man unit, using portable, digital technology to report, write, edit, and transmit his stories from conflict areas around the world. He has covered war zones in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia for NBC, MSNBC, and CNN.
As a non-embedded correspondent for CNN, Mr. Sites broadcasted live as coalition air strikes hit Iraqi positions in Chamchamal and Kirkuk.
He was subsequently captured by Iraqi Fedayeen militia outside of Tikrit. He and his team were stripped of all their equipment and threatened with death until their Kurdish translator negotiated their release after four hours in captivity.
posted by Fergie @ 9/12/2005 09:51:00 AM
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