Bringing the War Home

Broadcasting & Cable interviewed Richard Engel and Nic Robertson on bringing back the news from a war zone in their 9/20 issue.

Robertson, who joined CNN as an engineer in 1990, has seen the size of portable uplinks go from several hundred pounds down to the size of two briefcases. Engel, whose first overseas assignment was as a print reporter in Cairo in 1996, comments on how the now ubiquitous cell phone has improved access to sources, pictures and even video.