{"id":1292,"date":"2009-02-12T07:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:37:14","slug":"kevin-sites-uww-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1292","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Sites @UWW 2\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/kevinsitesreports.com\/KS\/KSabout\/KSabout.html\"><span style=\"color: #003300\"><strong><big>Kevin Sites<\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/a> will present a lecture &#8220;One Man. One Year. A World of Conflict&#8221; at 7 p.m. on <strong>Mon., Feb. 16th<\/strong> in the Irvin  Young Auditorium as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/about\/lecture\/\">Contemporary Issues Lecture Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Time magazine called Mr. Sites &#8220;the web&#8217;s best war correspondent.&#8221;\u00a0 In November 2004, as an NBC News correspondent, he filmed and reported on the Iraqi war, including an incident where a U.S. Marine shot a wounded Iraqi insurgent in a Fallujah mosque.\u00a0For that he was honored with the <a href=\"http:\/\/payneawards.uoregon.edu\/\">Payne Award<\/a> for ethics in journalism.\u00a0 As Yahoo!&#8217;s first news correspondent, he spent an entire year covering every major global conflict for the award-winning documentary &#8220;Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone&#8221;.\u00a0 His website won a 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webbyawards.com\/\">Webby<\/a> for Best News\/Documentary\/Public Affairs site for coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah War.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/inthehotzone.jpg\" alt=\"In The Hot Zone cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Your University Library has a copy of his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vkynBAAACAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>In the hot zone: one man, one year, twenty wars<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN4874.S5177 A3 2007<\/a>), which includes his DVD documentary &#8220;A World of Conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Kevin Sites will present a lecture &#8220;One Man. One Year. A World of Conflict&#8221; at 7 p.m. on Mon., Feb. 16th in the Irvin Young Auditorium as part of the Contemporary Issues Lecture Series. Time magazine called Mr. Sites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1638,1637,353],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-contemporary-issues-lecture-series","tag-journalists","tag-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9685,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/9685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}