iraq

"Iraq Blog Count" Site Lists Over 60 Weblogs in Iran: July, 2004

Quite a substantial list at the site, including soldier blogs. Navigate from the links on the right.
[Iraq Blog Count]

Christopher Allbritton: First Reader-Funded Journalist-Blogger

Allbritton is a former AP and New York Daily News reporter. Now he is the web's "first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger, making regular word and image posts to his weblog."
[Back to Iraq]

Mark Glaser: "Back to Iraq 3: "Blogger-Journo Balances Dual Role in War Zone": July 7, 2004
Good backgrounder and report on Allbritton's current work.[Online Journalism Review]

Independent Weblogs From Iraq

Digital cameras, laptops, e-mail and weblogs make it easy for independent journalists or individual soldiers to publish personal reports to the world. Of the many independent weblogs originating from English-speaking journalists and soldiers in Iraq, these are among the best that feature photography. [Section by Gio Messner]

Christopher Allbritton: First Reader-Funded Journalist-Blogger
Allbritton is a former AP and New York Daily News reporter. Now he is the web's "first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger, making regular word and image posts to his weblog.
[Back to Iraq]

Kevin Sites: Combat Correspondent's Independent Weblog
Kevin Sites is a pioneering, multi-media 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 is currently on assignment for NBC News in Iraq, but this blog presents his independent reporting.
[Kevin Sites] [Photoessay: Women and Children of Albo Eatha]

Baghdad Journal
Students from the Berkeley School of Journalism spend a month in Iraq to work on freelance projects and see how life has been affected under what some call liberation and others, occupation.
[Baghdad Journal]

Pictures from the 101st Airborne: Cpl. Debbie Prieve
"If you really want to know the complete picture of what is going on in Iraq, don't trust the media to tell you. They're against the war and against the President who is waging it. Get online and find the hundreds of blogs and photo websites being posted by Americans serving in the war and by Iraqis whose country is the central battleground."
[Link—via Phototalk]

Boots on the Ground: Daily Life in Baghdad From US Soldier
[Boots on the Ground]

Kev Belcher: Operation Telic / Operation Iraqi Freedom
A Reservist's tour of duty in support of UK forces in Kuwait and Iraq from March 4th to June 26th 2003.
[Link]

Bloggers4Freedom Has Links to First-person Accounts from Iraq
[Bloggers4Freedom]