‘I used to be a war-a-year man’ Don McCullin
Published in The Independent, 11 May 2000 Think of Vietnam, and any image that occurs is likely to be his. Yet one of photojournalism’s greatest exponents has swapped war for a hermit’s life in...
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Capa’s greatest creation: himself
Published in British Journalism Review, Volume 13, No.3, 2002 Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw (Macmillan, £20) Let’s get the bad stuff over first. Robert Capa was...
View ArticleEvatt seminar: Investigative journalism
A special Evatt Sunset Seminar, Investigative Journalism: Phillip Knightley with Chris Masters, was held today at the Seymour Theatre Centre in Sydney. The following is taken from the Evatt Foundation...
View ArticleA permanent casualty: The death of investigative journalism and who killed it?
This paper was produced for a special Evatt Sunset seminar. Phillip Knightley assesses the state of his craft. The Golden Age of journalism Before we get around to revealing the names of the murderers,...
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History or bunkem?
Published in British Journalism Review, Vol.14. No.2, 2003 The Pentagon made it clear from the beginning of the war against Iraq that there would be no censorship. What it failed to say was that war...
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All of These People: a memoir by Fergal Keane
Published in The Independent, 18 March 2005. All of These People A memoir by Fergal Keane HarperCollins £18.99 395pp Hooked on bullets and booze This is a book about two Fergal Keanes. The first part...
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The Great War for Civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East, by Robert Fisk
Published in The Independent, 14 October 2005 The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (Fourth Estate, £25) This brilliant but enormous book (no less than 1,366...
View ArticleAdventures in Journalism: Tall Tales and True Scoops
Phillip was the guest lecturer last night at City University’s Graduate School of Journalism in a talk titled Adventures in Journalism: Tall Tales and True Scoops. The lecture was written up by...
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