This is London   First broadcast   During the Cold War   Speaking to the Arab world   Reporting from the front line   The future of broadcasting		News from the front line For the reporters at the front line, the job of providing objective and accurate accounts of the world's news stories has been made gradually easier over the last 70 years by the immense developments in communications and broadcasting technology. Reporters like Richard Dimbleby, who sent back accounts of the battles of World War II, relied on apparatus that would seem incredibly cumbersome and heavy by today's standards. By the time reporters like Harold Briley were covering international news in the 1960s, the use of international telephone lines had become more common, making it easier to file stories. And by the time Allan Little covered the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s, satellite-phones and other new developments had made live interviews and '2-ways' much easier, allowing correspondents to report live on-air from remote areas and battle-zones. BBC World Affairs correspondent, Allan Little recalls his experience of reporting on conflict in Yugoslavia. He looks at the challenges and dangers of reporting news from the “front line” and assesses how far science has helped reporters to overcome restrictions.

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