they were mostly in women sections of newspapers and these three women arrived in vietnam without jobs, without hot places to stay, without anything and they were told you don t belong here. we will have an opportunity to talk about each one of their lives. what are their names? of french photojournalist and photographer, francis fitzgerald, an american reporter , longform, magazine. and kate webb. your subtitle is how three women rewrote the story of the war. they were provided a counter narrative and more conventional coverage. how did they do that? they did that by it is interesting you said counter because it was enlarging. they were out covering this year. they enlarged what they reported on and what they photographed. as outsiders, i think they did not buy realize as they were going along how much they were changing. they made a more humane picture. they looked at the country deeper. she did not take photographs that were patriotic. francis fitzgerald who is kno
era were not considered capable. they were mostly in women sections of newspapers and these three women arrived in vietnam without jobs, without hot places to stay, without anything and they were told you don t belong here. we will have an opportunity to talk about each one of their lives. what are their names? of french photojournalist and photographer, francis fitzgerald, an american reporter , longform, magazine. and kate webb. your subtitle is how three women rewrote the story of the war. they were provided a counter narrative and more conventional coverage. how did they do that? they did that by it is interesting you said counter because it was enlarging. they were out covering this year. they enlarged what they reported on and what they photographed. as outsiders, i think they did not buy realize as they were going along how much they were changing. they made a more humane picture. they looked at the country deeper. she did not take photographs that were patriot
your new book is titled you don t belong here. i am telling the story of three amazing women who went to vietnam because women in that era were not considered capable. they were mostly in women sections of newspapers and these three women arrived in vietnam without jobs, without host: your new book is titled you don t belong here. what is the story? n opportunityo talk about each one of their lives. what are their names? of french photojournalist and photographer, francis fitzgerald, an american reporter , longform, magazine. and kate webb. your subtitle is how three women rewrote the story of the war. they were provided a counter narrative and more conventional coverage. how did they do that? they did that by it is interesting you said counter because it was enlarging. they were out covering this year. they enlarged what they reported on and what they photographed. as outsiders, i think they did not buy realize as they were going along how much they were changi
Evolved, because theres such a rich history and what you see and hope for moving forward. I was talking to tim about this earlier coming in. So the print, i want to say the print is the median age is probablily early 60s. We Just Launched a new website the main demographic at thenation. Com is 25 to 34. The continuity in change, the ability to bring people in and i mean, i want subscribers who are 105 and i want readers who are 12, and we had writers who are 13 and writers who are 104. So i think thats a great span, and its complicated, because i remember tom frank, many years ago did a cover story for us, what is hip . And i got angry calls, this is years ago. Richard was sitting anyway, what do you mean . What about my Health Insurance program . [ laughter ] so we got straddled. But i take great, i take heart in bringing in a new generation and thats partly the interns, its partly the student nation program, we have 60 campus correspondents all around the country, all kinds of campus
It just fell together as i went along. I think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. And i knew i didnt want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldnt make a life. I wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. And at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasnt sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i went back to vietnam in 1989, it was the first time and i traveled with a small group from hanoi all the way through the country, and i was in saigon and did the memory walk of the places i had lived. And i realized, there was a moment when it just hit me. I thought of my daughter who was then 8. And i wanted to go home. And i miss the life that i had created. And i think that was when i really realized that i had, i had done that, that i had somehow chosen or life had chosen me. I didnt want to