25. The Emotional Aftermath of War Reporting

The Cluster F Theory Podcast

25. The Emotional Aftermath of War Reporting - David Chater

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25. The Emotional Aftermath of War Reporting - David Chater

Jul 25, 2024

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David Chater is an award-winning British broadcast journalist who has worked in international television news for over 40 years. He has reported for Independent Television News, Sky News and Al Jazeera English from pretty much every conflict you can think of. He's reported on the Falklands War, the Yugoslavian Homeland Wars, the First Gulf War, the Second Gulf War, the Sri Lankan civil war, the war in Afghanistan, the second Chechen War. He's been in the middle of a Scud missile attack, a grad rocket attack was in the middle of Operation Shock and Awe in Baghdad and was shot in the back by a sniper which required life-saving surgery. He has stepped away from international conflicts and is enjoying his new life as an olive farmer.

David reporting live on Sky News on April 9th 2003 as US troops occupied Baghdad as part of in invasion of Iraq: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

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To many of us the world, our very planet, appears to be coming apart. How can we put it back together again (and should we)? What do we salvage and what do we throw away? What goes where and why?

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