About Covering War at Home

While the wire services and the biggest national newsrooms cover the front lines of war, telling the story on the home front falls primarily to the journalists in local newsrooms across the U.S. In this Seminar Snapshot from the "Covering War at Home" conference at The Poynter Institute, Poynter faculty and visiting professionals explore the issues surrounding the impact in the U.S. of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Featured visiting faculty in this conference (in May 2008) include David Maraniss and Anne Hull, of The Washington Post, Elana Newman and Bruce Shapiro of the Dart Center, and Byron Pitts of CBS News.