News about Anna Coren

Anna Coren, an Australian television journalist, will be banned from Thailand after being charged with a "serious violation of journalistic ethics" for filming inside a daycare center where 37 people, including 24 children, were killed last week. Coren is seen standing left, after she had scaled over a fence to leave the premises; right, in her time presenting Channel Seven's Today Tonight; and inset, speaking with Thai government officials near the site of the massacre.

They've risked kidnap, sex, illness, and death, all with the aim of becoming international war correspondents. A new book explores the Australian women journalists who cover international conflicts. Through Her Eyes, a new book that has chronicled the lives of 29 other Australian women journalists who have contributed to this cause, including visiting historical world events. After Osama Bin Laden's assassination, CNN's Anna Coren witnessed the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and ABC's Barbara Miller caught the Russian invasion of Ukraine and police detention of Amanda Hodge in northwestern Pakistan. Ruth Pollard led her troops into Syria under tank shelling and sniper fire, Melissa Roberts was adopted by the Mujahedin, and Kirsty Needham struck Hong Kong's streets amid tear gas and violent demonstrations. Candace Sutton of Daily Mail Australia travelled to Africa in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, sharing the tale of dying refugees and central Africa's killing fields.