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Hot Zone. Africa At War. 

EVENT: Friday, April 27, 2007 -- 7:00 PM James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA Campus Please RSVP to erwin.c.ong @gmail.com

Over the course of one year, solo journalist Kevin Sites covered 22 conflict zones in 19 countries, seeking to understand the real costs of a world perpetually at war. 

"A World of Conflict" -- the documentary film about that project -- chronicles Sites' journey, starting with the anarchy of Somalia in September 2005 and culminating with the explosive war between Israel and Hezbollah in summer 2006.

As Yahoo!'s first news correspondent, Sites helped pioneer solo journalism, working completely alone, traveling and reporting for Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Instead of reporting with a crew, he carried a backpack of portable digital technology to shoot, write, edit and transmit multimedia reports.

In November 2004, Sites became a flashpoint of controversy for one of the biggest stories of the current war in Iraq. As an NBC News correspondent, he videotaped a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi insurgent in a Falluja mosque. He was honored with the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and was recently nominated for a national Emmy Award for his television and web coverage of the mosque shooting. In 2006, he was given the prestigious Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism by the Los Angeles Press Club.

Time Magazine calls "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" one of 50 Coolest Websites on the Internet and Forbes Magazine lists Sites in The Web Celeb 25 this year.

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Film Screening of "A World of Conflict"
Veteran war reporter Kevin Sites' documentary about Yahoo!'s international experiment in online journalism

The screening of "A World of Conflict" will be followed by a Q&A with Kevin Sites and a coffee reception
Free and open to the public; parking is available for $8 in lot 3 (enter Hilgard Avenue and Wyton Drive for closest parking structure; purchase parking pass and proceed to lot 3; as you exit parking structure 3 heading into campus, you'll be at Melnitz Hall and the Bridges Theater is right there)

For more information please contact Erwin Ong at erwin.c.ong @gmail.com - www.asiamedia.ucla.edu 

Sponsors: African Studies Center, Latin American Center, UCLA International Institute, Asia Institute, AsiaMedia

To read Kevin's commentaries, check the website for coverage:

Sudan http://hotzone.yahoo.com/sudan;_ylt=AoEKC7u3bTB4hnCyaRcDoUKLFMsF 

Uganda http://hotzone.yahoo.com/uganda;_ylt=AlH7aKLTy.GV5kPmA3_jQPCLFMsF 

Democratic Republic of Congo http://hotzone.yahoo.com/congo;_ylt=AuUx667dbdk5NRe0JW.FwEuLFMsF 

Somalia http://hotzone.yahoo.com/somalia;_ylt=Akd9TNprcu_9ygCUrZppb6yLFMsF 

Haiti http://hotzone.yahoo.com/haiti;_ylt=AvFX.z72NNyIkYhk.0IhnHWLFMsF 

Other areas covered: Afghanistan, Cambodia, Chechnya, Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Kashmir, Israel/Palestinians, Lebanon, 2006 Mideast Crisis, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Syria, Vietnam

Problems with the links above? Go to to http://hotzone.yahoo.com/pastlocations;_ylt=AgePVfQxLctVYfzNsTQIQw6LFMsF 
and click on location of interest. Home webpage: http://hotzone.yahoo.com/ 

found at webpronews.com  by David A. Utter on Thu, 03/29/2007

Global newsmaking places like the Middle East, Africa and China should be more complete in the eyes of Yahoo News readers with the expanded coverage Yahoo plans to offer.

Their deal with The McClatchy Company brings the professional knowledge of foreign correspondents to reside alongside regularly reported news. Regional blog reports from them will accompany select stories and deliver an in-person perspective to their stories.

When Trusted Voices debuts, one of their first efforts involves news coverage of stories in Iraq. An 'Inside Iraq' blog written by Baghdad-based McClatchy staffers from the area. They also expect contributions from other Middle East correspondents in Cairo, Jerusalem, and other places in the region.

When the new effort launches from Iraq and other places, it will represent something of a return to the past for Yahoo News. For a brief period, the site experimented with having blog content accompany stories from traditional news sources.

That project ended abruptly a year later in October 2006, without comment from Yahoo. Blogs that enjoyed some visibility on the heavily visited Yahoo News site have yet to see the company return that model to active use.

Yahoo has made use of correspondents itself, in an effort to add original content during former Yahoo executive Lloyd Braun's tenure overseeing Yahoo's media efforts. War correspondent Kevin Sites spent a year contributing to Yahoo's Hot Zone, traveling the globe to various sites of conflict.

Little has been done with Hot Zone since then. The McClatchy deal looks like a way to recapture that type of commentary in a complementary format rather than as standalone reporting pieces.

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