Beyond the front line / Mike McRoberts.

Introduction -- A tale of two quakes: Christchurch and Japan, 2011 -- Telling stories: how I got here -- 'The brown Jesus': being in the public eye -- The 'War on Terror': Afghanistan, 2011, and 9/11 and Pakistan, 2001 -- Finishing the job his father had started: Iraq, 2003 -- The warlord: the Solomon Islands, 2003 -- The most dangerous of elections: Iraq, 2005 -- 'A painful but necessary step': Gaza, 2005 -- 'A state of calamity': the Philippines, 2006 -- 'To where I go?': Lebanon, 2006 -- 'Good luck with that coup': Fiji, 2000 and 2006 -- A tangible difference: reporting on the charities -- Nature's fury and moments of humanity: Burma and China, 2008 -- 'This is what I trained for': spending time with the troops -- Stories beyond winning and losing: covering sports -- Seeing a better future: South Africa and Zimbabwe, 2009 -- Human being first, journalist second: Haiti, 2010 -- The breaking of the Red Shirts protest: Bangkok, 2010 -- Disasters at home: Christchurch and Pike River Mine, 2010.

"From risking imprisonment in order to secretly interview Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, to battling the Solomon Islands' Weather Coast to track down the notorious warlord Harold Keke, New Zealand journalist Mike McRoberts has made a habit of telling difficult and challenging stories... In the story behind the stories, Mike gives the reader a backstage pass to some of the biggest news events of the past decade, and candidly reveals the sometimes frightening, often fraught, ways those stories have made it to air."--Front flap.