I see that BBC correspondent Caroline Hawley’s leaving Baghdad at the end of the year after two and a half years. There’s a nice piece by John Simpson in the BBC’s Newswatch section of their website. There are critics of “roof-top” journalism that can see correspondents stuck in the Green Zone just regurgitating stuff that other – Iraqi – people have told them. But Simpson defends the BBC’s correspondents as well as some of those from British newspapers, whilst pointing out that other news organisations don’t maintain correspondents in the city.
He also says that there’s plenty of original journalism still being done. I guess that it’s just done a little more surreptitiously without necessarily taking a camera crew with them.