War Tribe

For the final episode of Season One of WAR TRIBE, Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Horyevoy wakes after a night spent sheltering in his basement during a Russian bombardment. From that vantage point, he reflects on what he’s learned working alongside international journalists — and the personal qualities he believes truly matter in a correspondent. Dmytro also explains why he prefers the term “Local Pr...

Wendy Smith’s story begins with a violent rupture: a motorbike crash that left her with a spinal injury and eight months in hospital, told she might never walk again. She ignored it. Walking out on crutches, she began a decades-long process of rebuilding—not just physically, but psychologically. Now working in Hostile Environment and Awareness Training (HEAT) for journalists—preparing reporters to...

My former colleague at Frontline News, combat cameraman Peter Jouvenal talks about the importance of the personal touch in finding stories. Peter shares how he made BBC correspondent John Simpson's famous 'liberation' of Kabul happen -- it was all down to a prosthetic leg he'd arranged for a key commander years before. He also discusses how he felt about being labelled a 'video smelly' -- a dismis...

In this episode of War Tribe, we meet Eliot Higgins, the founder of the citizen journalist collective Bellingcat. He has changed the way conflict reporting is done in recent years. Eliot works with more traditional war reporters to investigate what really happened in high profile cases where the truth is disputed. He pioneered the verification of freely-available ‘open-source’ evidence drawn from...

How do you freelance in a war zone? In this episode of War Tribe , I speak to journalist and author Jen Stout about reporting from Ukraine without the backing of a major organisation — and what that really involves on the ground. Her book Night Train to Odesa traces that experience, while her reporting has been shortlisted by Amnesty International and the Foreign Press Association. Picture Credit:...

For years now, BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson can't help seeing his young son in his mind's eye, as he reports on families suffering in war zones. Simpson says he's gloomy about journalism's future and argues that modern conflicts—especially Gaza—are increasingly closed to journalists, shaping what the world can see.

PAUL CONROY PHOTOGRAPHER PART 2 What Paul looked for in a reporter when working with one; his unexpected Hollywood red-carpet period with Jamie Doran and Rosamund Pike; and why he and Marie Colvin decided to make the live broadcasts that killed her. The interview ends suddenly. Paul was unhurt, but a Russian airplane had dropped a couple of big glide bombs nearby. They took out all the power suppl...

The first two episodes feature an interview with the photographer Paul Conroy who has died, at home with family in Devon, of a heart attack. We thought it was important to put out this out as an extended recording in two parts, as a tribute to his unique contribution to conflict journalism. Paul was best known for his work with the Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin of course. And in this part, he...