Dispatches (magazine)

Dispatches (magazine)
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Editor Gary Knight, Mort Rosenblum
Categories Photography, International affairs, foreign affairs
Frequency 4/year
Publisher Simba Gill
First issue 2008
Company Dispatches Corp.
Country International
Based in UK, USA
Language English
Website www.rethink-dispatches.com
ISSN 1945-3329

Dispatches is a quarterly magazine founded in 2008 by photographer Gary Knight, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum, and pharmaceutical executive Dr. Simba Gill.

With its signature plain brown paper cover, its small book-size format, and at almost 200 pages in length, dispatches does not resemble a typical news magazine[1]. Nor does this magazines' emphasis on printed word (as opposed to online content) reflect the general trends in the media industry[2]. Further, dispatches is distinguished by its use of long-form journalism and photo-essay to explore a single topic of international relevance in each issue.

Format

Each issue focuses on one topic in the fields of international relations and foreign affairs. Past topics have included In America, Beyond Iraq, and On Russia. Contributors differ in each issue, as they are commissioned based on their experience and expertise in the topic being explored. Contributors have included journalists, foreign correspondents, academics, novelists, and photographers[2]. Photography and photo-essay features prominently within dispatches, with approximately 80 pages per issue dedicated to the work of a single photographer documenting a single topic [3].

By focusing on a single topic per issue, dispatches attempts to give its readers more depth on a given topic then is commonly found in the media. In its first issue, In America, travel writer Paul Theroux highlights the lack of depth in the media's coverage of events such as the Iraq War. He indicates "...what we are still getting - is foreground, no background" [4].

External links

References

  1. ^ Lidman, Melanie (August/September 2008). "Going Long". American Journalism Review. http://www.ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=4590. Retrieved 2009-04-12. 
  2. ^ a b MacMillan, Robert (May 2008). "Dispatches magazine prefers print over Internet". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1156036720080512. Retrieved 2009-04-12. 
  3. ^ "Dispatches: Photography in context". Canon Profession Network. August 2008. http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/in_focus/dispatches.do. Retrieved 2009-04-12. [dead link]
  4. ^ Stoehr, John (August 2008). "Dispatches in America". Charleston City Paper. http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A50399. Retrieved 2009-04-20. 


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