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The situation in Iraq as seen at ground level.

the pitch


Hi there! Thanks for stopping in. I'm Christopher Allbritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter. In 2002, I went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq outside Saddam's direct control, looking for stories. (Some might call it "looking for trouble.") In March 2003, I made it back in time for the war, becoming the Web's first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger. With the support of thousands of readers, we raised almost $15,000. You can read my dispatches here. It was one of the moments in journalism when everything worked. It was a grand -- and successful -- experiment in independent journalism.

Now I'm back in Iraq for the third time, and this time, I've effectively moved to Baghdad. It's a raucous, scary and exciting place with a lot of news going on. I report for a variety of outlets including Time Magazine and others. If you care to donate to support Back-to-Iraq.com, you'll be placed on a "premium" mailing list that I'll try to get special dispatches out to you that either don't appear on the Web site, or appear days early. When I get some more photographs, I'll try to send those out on the listserv as well.

Thanks for reading!

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