by admin | Jan 27, 2021 | Bylines
Originally published in Aeon Magazine, April 9, 2014 The unforgiven When soldiers kill in war, the secret shame and guilt they bring back home can destroy them November 2004, against a shattered wall in south Fallujah in Iraq, with video rolling, I conduct a...
by admin | Jan 20, 2019 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice Magazine, January 28, 2013 All photos by Nina Berman except archival image William Wold. As Yahoo! News’s first war correspondent, between 2005 and 2006 Kevin Sites gained notoriety for covering every major conflict across the globe in one...
by admin | Oct 21, 2018 | Bylines
Originally published in USA Today, February 24, 2014 Blaming suspect’s actions in sniper’s death on disorder unfairly stigmatizes others. Eddie Ray Routh, an Iraq War veteran who has been charged in the killings of former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and...
by admin | Mar 21, 2018 | Bylines
Originally published in Small Wars Journal, February 2018 Kevin Sites In war, there is always time for champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it. — Napoleon Bonaparte From wine swilling Greek hoplites to tweaked out NAZI’s on speed, drugs and...
by admin | Nov 9, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Alert Diver magazine, August 2015. Police divers descend to new depths for justice. Sgt. David Mascarenas was stewing in his own sweat inside a Whites hazmat drysuit. It was a sunny day in Southern California in June 2013, but it wasn’t...
by admin | Jan 26, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice Magazine, November 6, 2014 “Do you see how I shoot him? You brother of a bitch. This is not fair. I don’t have a sniper rifle. It’s not fair.” Captain Abdul Khadir hurled epithets and 7.62 rounds at a group of...
by admin | Jan 26, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice Magazine, October 14, 2014 Warlord Nabi Gechi takes the author and his companions for a swim in the muddy Kunduz River. Under the cover of a moonless night in mid-October 2001, I found myself loading thousands of pounds of camera equipment...
by admin | Jan 25, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Salon.com, January 28, 2013 An Army specialist recounts the horrible story of realizing he’s just fired on — and killed — fellow Americans Excerpted from “The Things They Cannot Say” Southwest of Baghdad in the...
by admin | Jan 23, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice.com, October 24, 2014 Kevin Sites is a war correspondent who VICE and several other major media companies like CNN, ABC, and NBC have sent into some of the most unstable and dangerous places in the world. He’s that rare breed...
by admin | Jan 22, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Dart Center.org, October 5, 2014 For the past two years, Kevin Sites, a 2012 Ochberg Fellow, has been teaching at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre. There, in large part to avoid being labeled problem-makers, his...
by admin | Jan 7, 2015 | Video Bylines, War Reporting
GRAPHIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES VISIBLE When a thirteen-year-old Afghan boy named Habibullah caught his arms in a flour mill they were nearly shredded from his body. The only hope to save both his life and limbs were four American military doctors at remote combat...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
On the streets of Fallujah, Iraq in 2004, veteran journalist Kevin Sites interviewed William Wold (Video link, starts at 23:00), a young Marine emotionally charged from combat, who had killed six insurgents just moments before relating his experiences. Sites’...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War By Kevin Sites (Harper Perennial; 295 pages; $15.99 paperback) When soldiers discuss their experiences at war, they often talk of a breaking point – the first time...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
There are some stories soldiers don’t share when they return home, because of shame or anger, because they are afraid of what others may think of them, or sometimes just because no one asks. Writer Kevin Sites has collected such stories in his new book...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
Journalist Kevin Sites reported from Afghanistan when the United States invaded in 2001, and he has been back a handful of times. With U.S. and NATO troops scheduled to withdraw next year, Sites calls the American legacy “a paradox.” While many Afghans...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
Author and Producer Kevin Sites and his new book Swimming With Warlords: A Dozen Year Journey Across the Afghan War Award-winning backpack journalist and author Kevin Sites traded a high profile career as a network news producer and correspondent (ABC, NBC, CNN) to...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
Journalist Kevin Sites joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “Swimming with Warlords,” which finds him returning to Afghanistan 10 years after his first visit in 2001. ...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Video Bylines
Even before a much-touted fall offensive in Kandahar Province, the United States suffered its deadliest month yet in Afghanistan with 66 Americans killed in July. GlobalPost’s Kevin Sites looks at what U.S. and coalition forces are up against in Afghanistan as the...
by admin | Dec 30, 2014 | Featured Videos, Video Bylines, War Reporting
Video: Afghan security contractors undermine the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — When a commercial convoy hauling supplies for U.S. and NATO bases came under attack from Taliban insurgents in the western Zhari district of Afghanistan, the...
by admin | Dec 29, 2014 | War Reporting
A report originally filed for Global Post concerning the advent of summer (2010) and the NATO offensive to push the Taliban out of their strongholds in Kandahar and Southern Afghanistan.
by admin | Dec 27, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
EXTREMELY GRAPHIC IMAGES: VIOLENCE, WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND DEAD BODIES. NOT NOT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics — they share the truth about their...
by admin | Dec 26, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES: VIOLENCE, WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND DEAD BODIES. NOT NOT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics — they share the truth about their wars. For...
by admin | Dec 25, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
GRAPHIC IMAGES: VIOLENCE, WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND DEAD BODIES. NOT NOT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics — they share the truth about their wars. For each...
by admin | Dec 24, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
At the table with the patient with the leg wound, Staff Sgt. Ben Swob, part of the newly arrived group notices the injury site is beginning to bleed again—heavily. He decides, unilaterally, to apply a second tourniquet just above the first. The Afghan man, sedated...
by admin | Dec 23, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
WARNING: SOME GRAPHIC MEDICAL PROCEDURES DEPICTED U.S. Combat Medics mostly from 3.2 Cavalry and newly deployed to Afghanistan, surround the gurneys, five or six per victim, as if they were hungry animals at a feeding trough. Each renders a service; ventilating with a...
by admin | Dec 22, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
After six hours on the road, Afghan National Army soldiers wave down the convoy and tell them about what they believe is a bomb in an abandoned building near the roadside. Staff Sgt. William Cook, a from Waynesville, Missouri — goes to work. Cook is the...
by admin | Dec 21, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
After six hours on the road, Afghan National Army soldiers wave down the convoy and tell them about what they believe is a bomb in an abandoned building near the roadside. Staff Sgt. William Cook, a from Waynesville, Missouri — goes to work. Cook is the...
by admin | Dec 20, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
In Afghanistan, war is increasingly waged by robots, unmanned aircraft and remote control. In this video a soldier based at Ghundy Gar, a dusty hillside combat outpost in the Zhari district of western Afghanistan, launches the Raven, a remote-controlled surveillance...
by admin | Dec 19, 2014 | Featured Videos, War Reporting
In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics — they share the truth about their wars. For each of them it means something different: one struggles to recover from a head injury he believes...
by admin | Dec 18, 2014 | A World of Conflict, Featured Videos
MSNBC.com’s exclusive feature-length documentary “The Umbrella Movement” reflects on the hopes, clashes, symbols, guardians, memories and frustrations of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests with commentary by President of the Legislative Council...
by admin | Oct 6, 2014 | Books
As a journalist for NBC News, Kevin Sites made his first trip to Afghanistan in October 2001, crossing the Amu Darya River at night, traveling with Northern Alliance fighters as they toppled the Taliban regime with the help of American forces. In that first hundred...
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by admin | Feb 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
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by admin | Jul 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
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by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is the powerful opening montage to the documentary “A World of Conflict” which follows reporter Kevin Sites on his journey to cover every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 2 – Somalia, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available at...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 3 – The Congo, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 4 – Uganda, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available at...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 5 – Iraq, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available at...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 6 – Lebanon & Gaza, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial....
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 7 – on Kinneret, a suicide bombing survivor, in the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 8 – Iran, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available at...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 9, The Beslan School Massacre, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial....
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 10, Afghanistan, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available at...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 11, Gulsoma, Afghan Child Bride of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial....
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chaper 12, Nepal and Kashmir, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 13, Sri Lanka, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available at...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
Chapter 14, Israel-Hezbollah War The war between Israel and Hezbollah shook the landscape in the Middle East. Kevin Sites covered the crisis for a month, from both sides of the divide. He reported from southern Lebanon during the height of the Israeli offensive, as...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
This is Chapter 15, Credits, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper Perennial. Available at...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
Journalist and author Kevin Sites discusses the motivations and intentions behind his hot zone war coverage project which is now a book by Harper Perennial.
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | A World of Conflict
Before Virginia Tech, before Columbine, there was Paducah. Watch the video & read the whole story on http//hotzone.yahoo.com
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | Books
Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | Books
In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics—they share the truth about their wars. For each of them it means something different: one struggles to recover from a head injury he believes has...
by admin | Oct 10, 2012 | People of the Web
Girls and Guns… cockfighting… extreme martial arts… Jason Atkins aims to show the most extreme sports on the net.
by admin | Oct 10, 2012 | People of the Web
Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy is on a mission to cover every homicide that occurs in L.A. County this year. Her tally so far? Over 700.
by admin | Oct 10, 2012 | People of the Web
Halloween fanatics meet your guru. Tom Nardone is putting the fear back on the faces of jack-0′-lanterns with a little help from pyrotechnics and power tools. No more “cutesy” pumpkins allowed. The grosser, the scarier, the better.
