Events

Events

Event Date

July 16, 2019

Venue

New America, Washington D.C.

Reporting on Civilian Casualties in the War Against ISIS

Airwars Director Chris Woods and report author Alexa O’Brien are presenting at the launch of the new Airwars report ‘News in Brief: US Media Coverage of Civilian Harm in the War Against ISIS’ in Washington DC. Authored by investigative journalist Alexa O’Brien, the report draws on new research and interviews with reporters at major US media outlets, providing editors with recommendations for improved coverage of civilian harm. The discussion is joined by Azmat Khan, co-author of The Uncounted, a New York Times Magazine investigation into civilian casualties in Iraq; by Peter Bergen, New America’s Vice President; and by Greg Jaffe, national security correspondent for the Washington Post.