William Langewiesche

William Langewiesche

William Langewiesche

William Langewiesche spent part of his childhood and adolescence sat alongside his father in the pilot that had it (first taking control of a camera at the age of 5 years), before studying anthropology at Stanford University, where he graduated in 1977.William Langewiesche seeing in person is not difficult to find features similar to those of a boxer: the shape of the nose, the corners of his chin, his eyes half closed. It also helps that the man is big and burly. The girls generally find him a good-looking guy. So to be fair, let's say that a boxer Langewiesche looks attractive. The theme of the look in Langewiesche, may seem banal, but it is not we also talked about a man who has spent much of the last 20 years living and reporting in war zones or places tremendous conflict.

In its roadmap for long steps include places like Kosovo, Iraq or Afghanistan. His series of three articles on the ground zero of the Twin Towers, He had six months reported in the rubble, there with rescue crews and the forensic team. It was in this morning it emerged the value of Langewiesche reporter. After the attack, journalists were taken in groups, almost like pre-school to ground zero. Langewiesche says he has never gone to a press conference and prefers planes to fly again before doing so. Langewiesche then did what he always does, came where he should not be assumed.

The death and destruction not moved too much his literature. When do the job, Langewiesche does not stay stuck in sentimentality. From his deep voice one can hear phrases like "He does not think He have uploaded beats not once in Iraq," or this, when first encountered in the middle of the Twin Towers disaster: "It was a familiar scene. He know war, He know her scent, her face. He did not get emotional to see that. "

The same composure when speaking he got permission to have unlimited access to all the Ground Zero. It also helped that the guy who had to ring the approval was a big fan of your articles in the Atlantic Monthly. And so, driven by the sort of internal mandate not to report what the font you want to show, Langewiesche became the only journalist in the world with unlimited access to the largest disaster site in New York history.

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