Richard Pyle's blog

Nobody really knows how many journalists actually covered the Vietnam War over the years from 1961 to the fall of Saigon in 1975, but it is likely that most of them visited the Saigon bureau of the Associated Press at some point. Now comes The Polaroid Portraits, Indochina 1972-1975, a unique record of these pilgrimages, produced in book form by Neal Ulevich. Read more...

What is — or was — the "Golden Age" of journalism? Did the craft to which we happily dedicate part, or all, of our lives, actually have a golden age, like ancient Greece or French art? Has journalism as we know it today even been around long enough to have had an era that could meet that definition? This question came up when Professor Jack Hamilton delivered a lecture about his new book, Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting. Take the poll: When do you think journalism's golden age happened? Read more...