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“Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.”

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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

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Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

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“the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we’re interested in them’.”

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There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the…

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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship,…

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