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Kirsty Lang examines the changing role of the war correspondent in the light of a major new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North. She talks to the curator of the show, Amanda Mason, and the author of the book that accompanies the exhibition, Jean Hood, about the early pioneers in this area of journalism. William Howard Russell is regarded as the first modern war correspondent with his compelling dispatches for the Times from the Crimean War. Kirsty is joined by his journalistic descendents, Robert Fox, Defence Correspondent for the London Evening Standard, Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 News, John D McHugh, Multimedia Photojournalist and Filmmaker, and Rosie Garthwaite, news producer for Al Jazeera English and author of How To Avoid Being Killed In A War Zone. With many decades of war reporting experience between them, they discuss how the role of the war correspondent has been helped and hindered by the technology available, the nature of the conflict, and the interest from those back home. Producer Ekene Akalawu.