Monday, May 02, 2011
Another Aussie program,
many thanks to Morpium for supplying the video!
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Monday, May 02, 2011
Michael was on Channel 7
in Brisbane to discuss the news of Osama Bin Laden’s
death. (Sorry about the advert, haven’t been able to
do a direct download yet, this is an embed from Ch7’s
site.):
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Back in April
2007, Jack Cafferty gave one of his glowing
commentaries on Michael’s work during
The
Situation Room. Unfortunately, he
mentioned Michael’s son ... at a time when Michael
was doing his level best to keep anyone from learning
of young Jack’s existence, for security reasons. At
the time, I edited the comments out, but I did keep
the clip. I have restored it to the bottom of the
page from that day’s report, so you can now view
it here.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Last night in
Las Vegas, the New York Festivals TV & Film
Awards were presented during the NAB convention, and
the Australian
Story program about Michael
received two awards -- a Gold World Medal in the
Biography/Profile category and a Silver World Medal
in the Magazine Format category. Congratulations to
producers Claire Forster and Renata Gombac for
capturing Michael’s gut-wrenching story in such an
open and honest way -- even those of us who have
followed his career closely were stunned by some of
the revelations presented in the program.
If you alive in Australia, you can watch the video on
the Australian Story
website. If you live outside
Australia, you can watch it here:
Part
One | Part
Two
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Sharon dug up
a couple vintage NPR interviews that Michael did --
one in December 2002 re Afghanistan and the other
from November 2003 from Baghdad.
Transforming
Afghanistan
Winning the
War
Monday, March 28, 2011
AIIA has posted photos
from Michael’s talk on March 8th:
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Thursday, March 03, 2011
Michael has gone public
with information about the new project that he is
working on:
correspondent
Michael Ware with a guard
on the Iraqi front lines between Shorish and
Kirkuk.
Frontline witness to
brutality
4 Mar 11 @ 04:30am by Candice Holznagel
NEVER-BEFORE seen footage from the hands of
al-Qaeda insurgents will bring the brutal truth of
war to the big screen in a cinema film being
produced by Brisbane journalist Michael Ware.
Ware, who spent his childhood days in Caloundra, is
somewhat of a celebrity in the US after almost 10
years abroad bringing the reality of the Afghan and
Iraq wars to the western world.
Kings Beach, where his family holidayed regularly,
is a stark comparison to the life Ware went on to
live.
As a Time magazine reporter and then with news
organisation CNN, Ware reported from both within
the US Army and as a man living among the
insurgents.
His experiences, including being kidnapped and held
at gunpoint, were gut-wrenching.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Big, big thanks to Nicole
for letting me know that QUT has posted the video of
the talk Michael gave there earlier this month. The
clip is embedded on this page, and a larger version
can be accessed via this link. (The video freezes
partway through, but the audio continues through
the end of the talk; unfortunately they cut the
Q&A section. Hopefully they can fix the
glitch, and hopefully they got the Q&As on
tape and can include those!) The video has no
controls, so no chance I can create a transcript
for this one.
[I’ve reconverted the clip as .mp4 and .m4v formats -- one worked
for me on a PC and the other on a Mac.]
Also, overnight the AIIA posted details of Michael's
talk for them on March 8:
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Michael has confirmed to
me that he has left CNN, although he is not yet ready
to disclose discussions about plans for his return to
US television.
That said, he has other projects cooking as well. He
is currently working very hard on something that I am
confident everyone will agree will have been worth
the wait. (This is not the book; that is still
percolating. This is something new and very, very
exciting.)
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
A tweet from
The Australian Institute of International Affairs
announced that Michael will be speaking there on
Tuesday, March 8th. They promised more details soon,
keep an eye on their site.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Michael will
be giving a lecture at the University of Queensland
next month. Hopefully some attendees will
blog/tweet/record/whatever...!
Alumni Lunch Lecture: Mr Michael Ware – CNN
Journalist
Date: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Room: Seminar Room East
Location: UQ Business School Downtown, Level 19,
Central Plaza One, 345 Queen Street, Brisbane
URL:
http://www.bel.uq.edu.au/alumni-lunch-lectures
Thursday, January 13, 2011
A law
professor at QUT tweeted yesterday that Michael was
interviewed on Nine News, although he gave no
details. It would have been around 10am there and at
the time Nine was doing live coverage of the flooding
in Brisbane, so I would assume that’s what he was
talking about. They have not posted the clip online.
Hopefully he was just walking about and checking on
things and he and his family are safe and
dry...