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.

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"Is he good or what?" -- Salam of "Where is Raed?"

"We'll take his frankly personal account of the situation over any would-be network 'Scud Stud.'" -- Time Out New York

"Christopher Allbritton rocks. ... Let's get him - our first professional weblog war-journalist - a ticket to Baghdad." -- Lisa English of Ruminate This!

"Just read it." -- The Agonist

"Whether you think invading Iraq is a good idea or not, I'm sure one thing we can all agree on is that the more independent reporting of the matter, the better." -- Tim Dunlop of The Road to Surfdom