In a world where the first casualty of war is truth, journalists are increasingly at risk of becoming part of the battlefield. For investigative journalist Peter Greste, his career had taken him to some of the most serious conflicts around the globe, including Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. Reporting from the frontline in some of the world’s most dangerous countries was part of his job. But when he was charged with threatening national security and incarcerated in an Egyptian prison in 2014, he found himself in the middle of a fight, not just for his own release, but for press freedom around the world. Greste found himself on foreign soil facing a sham trial, enduring solitary confinement and detention for 400 days. Based on extensive interviews and research, Greste provides a firsthand insight into the challenges facing Western media in the face of terrorism, from Trump’s phony war on ‘fake news’ and the repression of Putin’s Russia, to the war zones in Ukraine and Gaza. The Correspondent tells the gripping story of one man’s struggle for justice and truth in the face of adversity, and the ongoing importance of investigative journalism to shine a light in the darkness of war.
