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| commercial = No | type = Intelligence | language = | registration = | owner = Public Multimedia, Inc. | author = Bill Roggio Paul Hanusz | launch date = 2007 | current status = Online | revenue = | slogan = | content license = }} The Long War Journal (TLWJ) is an American news website, also described as a blog, which reports on the war on terror. The site is operated by Public Multimedia Incorporated (PMI), a non-profit media organization established in 2007. PMI is run by Paul Hanusz and Bill Roggio. Roggio is the managing editor of the journal and Thomas Joscelyn is senior editor. The site is a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies where both Roggio and Joscelyn are senior fellows. The journal evolved from Roggio's personal blog with which he reported on conflicts involving terrorism and Islamic insurgencies around the world. PMI states that its journal seeks to provide news on conflicts without promoting a political agenda and with a goal of providing in-depth, contextual, detailed reporting. The site's staff, led by Roggio, use international media sources plus contacts in the United States intelligence community for information for their reports. The organization is funded by private donations, sponsorships, and grants. As of 2011, the site received an estimated average of 12,000 views a day. ''The Long War Journal'' has been used as a source by a number of large, mass media organizations. The journal's reporting has included stories on insurgent and terrorist activities in Pakistan. ==History and mission== ''The Long War Journal'' began as Roggio's personal blog, BillRoggio.com, in which he provided detailed reporting on conflicts around the world using information obtained from media and internet sources plus information given him by contacts in the United States intelligence community. Hanusz, a regular reader and financial contributor to Roggio's blog, had the idea of organizing Roggio's reporting into a nonprofit journalism organization along the lines of the Center for Public Integrity. Thus, in 2007, Roggio and Hanusz left their full-time jobs and created PMI as a non-profit corporation with the goal of, according to the ''Columbia Journalism Review'', "to develop a first-of-its-kind media entity made up of independent reporters, at home and abroad, dedicated solely to reporting on terrorism, so-called small wars, and counterterrorism efforts around the world, to do it in the kind of fine-grained detail that the mainstream press never will, and, as much as possible, without an overt partisan bent."〔Mcleary, Paul, "(Blogging the long war: Bill Roggio wants to be your source for conflict coverage )", ''Columbia Journalism Review'', 46.6 (March–April 2008): 36+, (3621 words).〕〔Chinni, Dante, "(Media's hand in the Iraq war )", ''Christian Science Monitor'', May 22, 2007; retrieved June 16, 2011.〕〔Blakely, Rhys, "In the zone; The year on the web", ''The Times'', December 31, 2005, p. 32.〕〔Spillman, Benjamin, "(All About the Blog )", ''Las Vegas Review-Journal'', November 9, 2007; retrieved June 16, 2011.〕〔Chinni, Dante, "The value of a pro-war blogger's reports from Iraq; Bill Roggio's accounts bring home a feel for what US troops are facing in Iraq", ''Christian Science Monitor'', December 12, 2006, p. 9.〕 Roggio and the ''Long War Journal's'' staff use reports from various media organizations, including publications in countries where terrorists or Islamic insurgencies are active, such as in Afghanistan and Pakistan, then amplify and add historical context to what they find with information from their own network of US intelligence sources. In some cases, PMI has funded trips by its own media-credentialed journalists to report on war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines. Roggio, a former United States Army signalman and infantryman, uses his military experience to add strategic, operational, and tactical level context to the journal's reports. According to the ''Columbia Journalism Review'', "Roggio's greatest service, then, may be the way he picks up where the mainstream press leaves off, giving readers a simultaneously more specific and holistic understanding of the battlefield."〔 The ''Columbia Journalism Review'' reports that the ''Long War Journal'' for the most part avoids political bias in its stories. The ''Review'', however, noted that Roggio has at times aligned himself with conservative bloggers on issues such as the "Easongate" controversy.〔 The journal states that it is a publication of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which describes itself as non-partisan but has been called "neoconservative" by various resources.〔Goldberg, Michelle, "(The 'Hero' of the War on Terror )", ''The Nation'', February 10, 2011; retrieved June 17, 2011.〕〔(US News / Special: Empire Builders / Spheres of influence: Neocon think tanks and periodicals | Christian Science Monitor ), (archived )〕 In 2006, before the establishment of the ''Journal'', Huffington Post commentator Stephen Kaus criticized Roggio after Roggio complained about the ''Washington Post's'' negative coverage of his 2005 trip to Iraq as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps. Kaus criticized Roggio as a sensationalist who likes to get people to read his articles by distorting the news.〔 Kaus later added, however, that "I should make clear that Roggio's reporting and blogging make a valuable contribution and I take my hat off to his courage. It is the attacks on the Post that are unwarranted."〔Kaus, Stephen, "(Military Blogger Bill Roggio Swiftboats the Washington Post )", ''Huffington Post'', January 8, 2006.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Long War Journal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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