Experts
Kurt Pitzer
Author / Journalist
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Kurt Pitzer on Technology and War Correspondence
Starting with Afghanistan in the late 90s, Kurt Pitzer says digital technology is bringing a new immediacy to war reporting. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Kurt Pitzer on The Balkans, Then and Now
Though media attention has shifted from the region, it’s still a hotbed of ethnic discontent, Kurt Pitzer says. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In World
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Kurt Pitzer on The Chief Responsibility of Journalists
Above all, journalists should make us see through a different lens, Kurt Pitzer believes. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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An Intense War Story From Kurt Pitzer
Kurt Pitzer tells how soccer star Zidane broke the ice with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Kurt Pitzer has met killers who have just as much humanity as he does. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Belief
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When The Journalist Becomes the Story
When the house is fire, you jump in with a bucket of water, as Kurt Pitzer did with Mahdi Obeidi. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Kurt Pitzer on The American Media and the Iraq War
Coverage has been poor all around except for some Iraqi reporters in Kurt Pitzer’s opinion. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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A Shocking Story From Afghanistan
Kurt Pitzer remembers a fourteen-year-old warlord and learning to ride a horse. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Kurt Pitzer on Confronting Death in the Field
Kurt Pitzer tackles the terrible responsibility of accounting for the fallen. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Life & Death
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Kurt Pitzer on Assimilating Back To America
Going from mass graves to the Love Parade was disorienting for Kurt Pitzer. Read More
September 11, 2008 | In Media & Internet
Kurt Pitzer is a former commercial longline fisherman and relief worker who has reported from many of the world's turbulent regions, including the Balkans, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He was embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq, then jumped his embed as Baghdad fell. He met Dr. Mahdi Obeidi soon afterward and helped him go public with Saddam Hussein's remaining nuclear secrets. He and Obeidi cowrote The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind, which was published in paperback in September 2005.
