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This book examines the evolving practices of war and terrorism reporting in the context of digital media, focusing on the BBC’s adaptation to blogging, online sources, and immediate news publication. Daniel Bennett draws on interviews with over 100 BBC staff to explore how journalists negotiate traditional values such as impartiality and accuracy while facing pressures from rapid online dissemination and audience interaction. The book highlights ongoing challenges, including balancing personal expression with professional neutrality, verifying information under time constraints, and maintaining editorial control in a dynamic digital environment. Its relevance to contemporary journalism is substantial, as news organizations worldwide confront similar pressures from social media, citizen journalism, and the accelerated pace of information dissemination. Insights from this work are valuable for media professionals, students, and policymakers seeking to understand how traditional media institutions can adapt to digital-age challenges while reporting conflict and terrorism responsibly.The book’s strengths include empirical richness, capturing first-hand perspectives from BBC staff across roles, and its focus on the intersection of technology, journalism practice, and conflict reporting. Bennett successfully demonstrates how digital media reshapes editorial decision-making and ethical considerations. A limitation is its concentration on the BBC, which may reduce generalizability to other media organizations with different structures or editorial cultures. Additionally, the book emphasizes qualitative findings, with limited discussion of measurable audience impact. Nevertheless, it offers an original and practical contribution to understanding digital journalism in high-stakes reporting environments.A timely and insightful study of digital media’s influence on conflict reporting, especially terrorism coverage, offering both theoretical and practical insights for journalists, scholars, and media institutions. It is highly suitable for inclusion in repositories on media, conflict, and security studies.