War Journalism

Robert Hodierne, associate professor of journalism, began his 40-year journalism career as a freelance photographer covering the Vietnam War.

He was a senior managing editor of Army Times Publishing Co., the world's largest private publisher of defense- and military-related periodicals. Hodierne ran the publications' coverage for the first stage of the war with Iraq from Doha, Qatar, where he supervised 13 journalists embedded with the American forces. 

In 2010 he embedded with a Marine platoon sent to Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s “surge”  and produced a two-part documentary about those Marines that aired on 100 PBS stations.

In 2004 he spent six weeks embedded with American forces in Iraq. He has appeared regularly on television as an expert on military issues.

Hodierne teaches a First-Year Seminar title “War Reporting: From Bunker Hill to Baghdad.”

"I think honest war reporting is vital so that the American people know what our men and women in the military go through when we send them off to war," said Hodierne. 

Contact urnews2use@richmond.edu to connect with him today.