Episode 31: Be a Dreamcatcher with Kevin Sites

There are many attributes that come to mind when you meet Kevin Sites, but the best one is, he's a journalist by trade, storyteller by heart! Meet Kevin Sites - Author! He's an award-winning journalist, a pioneer in the field of backpack journalism reporting, and has covered over 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 Wired Rave Award in 2005 and the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism in 2006. He’s the author of three non-fiction books on war, all published by 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. 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 from 2012 until 2022. 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. We are so thrilled that he was able to join us on the Be a Dreamcatcher Podcast. Want to WATCH IT LIVE? Then head on over to Jessie Lynn's Facebook page today!