Wow. After a day and a half, "donations shot up to more than $700!":http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/000490.php#000490 That's fantastic. I just wanted to drop a quick note to express my appreciation and to let you know I'm working on an entry with some more reporting in it, so it's taking a little bit more time. But please stay tuned, I hope to have something up presently.
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About me
Hi there! Thanks for stopping in. I'm Christopher Allbritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter. In 2002, I went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq outside Saddam's direct control, looking for stories. (Some might call it "looking for trouble.") In March 2003, I made it back in time for the war, becoming the Web's first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger. With the support of thousands of readers, we raised almost $15,000. You can read my dispatches here. It was one of the moments in journalism when everything worked. It was a grand -- and successful -- experiment in independent journalism. In 2004, I moved to Iraq, where I would spend the next two years. It was a raucous, scary and exciting place with a lot of news going on. But I've since moved on to Beirut and the wider region. I now report for a variety of outlets.
Hi, Christopher!
I really appreciate your idea to report from Iraq as a free lance. I am an italian journalist and I’m writing about all problems of a free lance working in a war zone. Can you hell me telling your experience? Do you know italian free lance that are in Iraq now?
Thank you very much
Chiara
It would be interesting to hear about daily life in Occupied Iraq. The problems of finding a place to live, eating, telephoning, even bathing.
Reporting the “five o’clock follies” is well handled by Fox. (That was the name of the daily briefing held every afternoon in Siagon during our last war of occupation…. of course, Fox would never have called it that ‘-)
Congratulations! I am so happy for you. That is fabulous man.