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December 19, 2005
A few days late, but still worth it. . .
Michael Yon, for those of you who don't know, is an independent reporter in Iraq. He went over as an embedded reporter on his own chops the first time and has redefined what a blog-reporter can be. Since his original stint during the invasion of Iraq, Mr. Yon has picked up sponsorship from The Weekly Standard who offered him "affiliation with independence" (find out more about the embed process at this post of his).
Currently Yon is the front-runner for Time Magazine's Photo of the year with his photo "In His Arms" which deserves the top spot as it's one of the most moving pictures of the war IMHO. You can view the Time nominees and vote here.
Other bloggers have made the jump from "citizen jounalist" to "citizen foreign correspondent" or "citizen war reporter", namely Michael Totten (who's still freelancing pieces in addition to his blog) and Bill Roggio who blogs and writes for ThreatsWatch, but it's Mr. Yon who's on top of the heap.
Rather than just pumping up Yon, Totten and Roggio, this post has another purpose, Yon put up a flash presentation from the Iraq Elections on his site that he says:
"The video was not attributed, and I saw no information regarding the authorship to ask permission to run it. Apparently the author sent it out to be distributed by the winds"
So I'm adding my own little gust of air to the hopeful storm that this video represents and present it here:
Spread it around, you can "right click and Save As. . " here to download it and send to friends or post it wherever you can, no need to link back to me, but if you want to throw Michael Yon a link, it'd be appreciated. The world needs more of reporting like his.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at December 19, 2005 9:17 AM
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