August 4, 2016
The acclaimed poet, novelist, storyteller, and columnist Jim Northrup, who received VVA’s Excellence in the Arts Award at the 2014 National Leadership Conference, died of complications from cancer on August 1. Northrup, an Anishinaabe Indian,…
July 11, 2016
Sydney H. Schanberg, the former New York Times war correspondent best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, died July 9 at age 82 . The story…
June 29, 2016
Michael Herr, the journalist and author best known for his Dispatches , his 1977 stylized book of Vietnam War reporting, died June 23 at age 76. Herr went to the war zone to write a series…
June 8, 2016
David Lamb, who covered the Vietnam War for United Press International, died June 5 at age 76 of lymphoma and esophageal cancer. Lamb reported from Vietnam beginning in 1968, and---among other things---is credited with dubbing the…
January 26, 2016
The Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans is a creative writing contest for U.S. military veterans and active duty personnel. It's run by The Iowa Review and sponsored by the family of Sharlet (in…
May 20, 2015
"Reporting Vietnam , " a multimedia exhibit showcasing how journalists covered the Vietnam War, opens May 22 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The extensive exhibit, held in conjunction with the 50th anniversary commemorations of…
January 24, 2015
Jack Griffiths, a staff writer at History of War magazine in the U.K., is working on a feature entitled "The Vietnam 50, " and would like to interview Vietnam veterans for it. "We are looking for veterans…
September 16, 2014
H.D.S. (David) Greenway's new memoir, Foreign Correspondent (Simon & Schuster, 304 pp., $26), looks at the nearly forty years he spent reporting for Time magazine, The Washington Post , and the Boston Globe from ninety-six foreign…
September 2, 2014
A. J. "Jack" Langguth, who covered the Vietnam War for The New York Times and who went on to have a long career as an author and journalism professor at the University of Southern…
August 13, 2014
As Thea Rosenbaum stepped from a still-moving C-130 onto the Khe Sanh runway on January 29, 1968, she was greeted with the click -click of incoming rounds. Throwing herself behind some oil drums, the young…