Women War Correspondents in Vietnam with Pat DelGiorno

Women Journalists came of age in WWII, but Vietnam was where they transformed the female war correspondent from a novelty into the norm. During the Vietnam War, women reporters flocked to combat as never before. Women who couldn’t find a publication or an editor willing to send them bought their own tickets to Saigon and became stringers for publications willing to buy their work but not hire them as staff. The loose military restrictions made reporting in Vietnam the most accessible war of its time for women. This presentation tells the women’s stories as they covered everything from jungle combat operations to the carnage visited upon the civilian population. Their reporting won every prize in the book from the Polk Award, and the Emmy, to the Pulitzer Prize.