Autobiography

  • Behind the Story

    Jun 1 2005

    Tomorrow’s Fish-and-Chips Paper

    By Mary Self

    It was going to be a big story, my journalist told me. In fact, it was going to be huge—my story had all the right elements for the ultimate tale of ‘triumph over tragedy’.

  • Behind the Story

    May 1 2005

    African Children

    By Jimi Matthews

    It’s always a race. What time is the bird? What have the opposition got? Bodies? How many? How many do you have? No, don't bother. There is no interest. Maybe if you had some bodies. I had some bodies yesterday but there was a train crash in Germany.

  • Behind the Story

    A Question of Faith in the Face of Disaster

    By Emma-Jane Kirby

    Emma-Jane Kirby talks about how reporting on the two earthquakes that hit the small Italian village of San Giuliano di Puglia in 2002 made her question her faith.

  • The War Journalist Mother

    By Sue Jameson

    I have worked for over twenty-five years as a correspondent, covering stories in Kosovo, Belgrade, Israel and all over the former USSR, including Chechnya. My motivation for this work is a driving passion.

  • Behind the Story

    Trying to Wean Myself off War

    By An Anonymous Producer

    I got into Iran on a tourist visa to make a documentary about some human rights issues there. It was a difficult job because we had to set up clandestine interviews with activists, and I knew how risky this could be not just for myself as the filmmaker, but also those who took part in it.

  • Behind the Story

    Walking on Evil

    By An Anonymous News Reporter

    I became a foreign correspondent because I wanted to find out how the world works. When I was growing up, I liked to write and I wanted to travel. I was interested in politics, too, like any other teenager in the 1960s in America when so much was happening.

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