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"Under Friendly Fire": an interview with Eve-Ann Prentice

In interview, Times journalist Eve-Ann Prentice discusses the theory and practice of war reporting via her experiences as a war correspondent in the Balkans during the 1990s. She relates incidents of coming under "friendly fire", witnessing atrocities and reactions to the bombing of Belgrade's Chinese embassy. Drawing on her experiences in the field and at the foreign news desk, she discusses the contradictions in the journalist's "detached observer" status, the relationships between journalists and their newsdesks, relationships with "official" government contacts, the experience of working with the Western "press pack", and the inflection that being a woman has on her work. Her long-standing interest in the Balkans leads her to further discuss the state of Yugoslavian journalism, censorship, bias and agenda setting in the media's representation of the Balkan wars, and the wider geopolitical interests behind the wars.