Special Programs Administration Student Services Click to see more information about the Global Journalism Program. Click to see last fall's diaries . A photographer is sitting next to you, snapping telling photos of the destruction left by rebel forces.
Sudden gunfire echoes off the crumbling facade of a bombed building.
Your driver, a native speaker, stops abruptly. Despite not knowing the language, you know he is pleading for his life, begging to turn back. John Owen, European director of the Freedom Forum, says news organizations are now making the commitment to teach journalists how to handle situations like this before sending them to cover conflict. Sadly, it took the deaths of prominent journalists, most recently, APTN's Miguel Gil Moreno and Kurt Schork from Reuters, who were both killed on a terrible day last May in Sierra Leone. BBC, Reuters, APTN, ITN and CNN are now sending their staff to training courses to help them prepare for the dangers of covering conflict.