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Dispatches (magazine)
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Dispatches is a quarterly magazine founded in 2008 by photographer Gary Knight
, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum
, and pharmaceutical executive Dr. Simba Gill.
With its signature plain brown paper cover, its small book-size format, and at almost 200 pages in length, dispatches does not resemble a typical news magazine. Nor does this magazines' emphasis on printed word (as opposed to online content) reflect the general trends in the media industry. Further, dispatches is distinguished by its use of long-form journalism and photo-essay to explore a single topic of international relevance in each issue.
By focusing on a single topic per issue, dispatches attempts to give its readers more depth on a given topic then is commonly found in the media. In its first issue, In America, travel writer Paul Theroux
highlights the lack of depth in the media's coverage of events such as the Iraq War. He indicates "...what we are still getting - is foreground, no background" .
Gary Knight
Gary Knight was born in 1964 in Oakham, England and was raised in the village of Knowle in the West Midlands. He attended Arden School and Solihull Sixth Form College. He left higher education mid way through his first year and started to travel in Europe and the Middle East...
, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum
Mort Rosenblum
Mort Rosenblum is an American author, editor and journalist.-Biography:Rosenblum joined the Associated Press at Newark in 1965. His international career began in 1967, when the AP sent him to cover mercenary wars in Congo. Since then Rosenblum has run AP bureaus in Kinshasa, Lagos, Kuala Lumpur,...
, and pharmaceutical executive Dr. Simba Gill.
With its signature plain brown paper cover, its small book-size format, and at almost 200 pages in length, dispatches does not resemble a typical news magazine. Nor does this magazines' emphasis on printed word (as opposed to online content) reflect the general trends in the media industry. Further, dispatches is distinguished by its use of long-form journalism and photo-essay to explore a single topic of international relevance in each issue.
Format
Each issue focuses on one topic in the fields of international relations and foreign affairs. Past topics have included In America, Beyond Iraq, and On Russia. Contributors differ in each issue, as they are commissioned based on their experience and expertise in the topic being explored. Contributors have included journalists, foreign correspondents, academics, novelists, and photographers. Photography and photo-essay features prominently within dispatches, with approximately 80 pages per issue dedicated to the work of a single photographer documenting a single topic .By focusing on a single topic per issue, dispatches attempts to give its readers more depth on a given topic then is commonly found in the media. In its first issue, In America, travel writer Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps The Great Railway Bazaar . He has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his...
highlights the lack of depth in the media's coverage of events such as the Iraq War. He indicates "...what we are still getting - is foreground, no background" .