Kevin Sites

Website - http://kevinsiteswrites.com/ Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites is considered a pioneer in the field of backpack journalism, reporting mostly solo from 30 different conflicts and natural disasters in the course of his career. Sites worked as a network news producer and correspondent for ABC, NBC, and CNN but left broadcast television in 2005 to become the first Internet correspondent for Yahoo! News. In his groundbreaking Hot Zone project, he covered nearly every war in the world in one year earning a dozen awards, including the 2005 Wired Rave Award 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. He’s the author of three books on war, all published by Harper Collins imprint, Harper Perennial. These include: • In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars. • Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War • The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War His debut novel, The Ocean Above Me will be published by Harper in the summer 2023. Sites was chosen as a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University in 2010 and in 2012, was selected as a Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism inducted Sites into their Hall of Achievement in 2008. From 2012 until 2022 he lived and worked in Hong Kong as an Associate Professor of Practice at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. He’s been a contributor to many print and online publications including, Vice News, Salon, Aeon, Men’s Health, Wired, Popular Science, Parade, Alert Diver and The Small Wars Journal.