Hi there! Thanks for stop­ping in. I’m Christo­pher Allbrit­ton, for­mer AP and New York Daily Newsreporter. 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.