Capturing the News: Three Decades of Reporting Crisis and Conflict

Anthony Collings found himself in his share of difficult situations in his thirty-four years as a newsman. Like being captured by AK-47-toting Syrians in Lebanon in 1981 while looking for missiles that threatened a new outbreak of hostilities with Israel, or being "detained" by the KGB in Moscow in 1967 during his first foreign posting for the Associated Press filing stories about Soviet dissidents.

Name a hot spot, and Collings has likely been there. From AP correspondent to Newsweek bure...