Words of Fire: Independent Journalists Who Challenge Dictators, Drug Lords, and Other Enemies of a Free Press.(Review)(Brief Article)

Collings, Anthony. Words of Fire: Independent Journalists Who Challenge Dictators, Drug Lords, and Other Enemies of a Free Press. New York Univ. Jul. 2001. c.288p. permanent paper. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8147-1605-9. $28.95. COMM

It's no surprise that Collings earned his credentials as a reporter for Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and CNN and eventually won an Emmy for his reports on the Oklahoma City bombing. This groundbreaking account is told with an immediacy that could only have come from a reporter skilled in the techniques of "guerrilla" journalism. Here, he shares the courageous stories of the men and women who bring us the …