War reporting

This could be good news for us (maybe not so great for Kevin Sites):

"One man. A World of Conflict." That is how the internet portal Yahoo! is announcing its move into the world of war reporting. Hiring one of the world's best-known war correspondents is seen as a move by Yahoo! to widen its horizons and challenge traditional media companies.

Kevin Sites, the American cameraman famous for filming the shooting by a US soldier of an apparently unarmed civilian in a Falluja mosque, is the man Yahoo! has hired. His job is to report solo from every "hot zone" in the world over the coming year.

Yahoo! announced the signing as part of its effort to provide "reporting for the new millennium". His style is described as "backpack journalism - narrative storytelling techniques" for the internet.

Sites, 42, will visit every place listed by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London as a site of armed conflict. The criterion will be that the conflict has been active in the past three months. The IISS lists about 50 sites but some of these (Peru, Mexico, Greece) are "dormant" and others, such as Spain and Cyprus, are unlikely to be featured.