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Running towards gunfire: Do foreign correspondents seek fear?

Matt McAllester

Matt McAllester, author and correspondent for Newsday, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of two books: Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo(NYU Press, 2002), and Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam's Iraq (HarperCollins 2004), the second being in part an account of his imprisonment in Abu Ghraib by Saddam's intelligence agents during the invasion of Iraq.

A recent report cited being a foreign correspondent as the most dangerous job in the world. So why do war journalists do the highly dangerous work they do? Matt McAllester examines a few hunches as to why his friends and colleagues and he do this, in spite of fear and against all common sense.

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