Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet correspondent for Yahoo! News. Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and features the people on every side, including those caught in the cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war's inhumanity. Personally, Sites will come to discover that the greatest danger he faces may not be from bombs and bullets, but from the unsettling power of the truth. “These images and dispatches form the numberless rooms of hell have an undeniable cumulative power.” - Kirkus Reviews “Kevin Sites represents the next step in the evolution of journalism.” - New York Post “An essential read, especially for those who believe themselves to be world-wise or politically savvy.” - Library Journal (starred review) Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet correspondent for Yahoo! News. Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and features the people on every side, including those caught in the cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war's inhumanity. Personally, Sites will come to discover that the greatest danger he faces may not be from bombs and bullets, but from the unsettling power of the truth. 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 ground breaking  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 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.