ABSTRACT
Ernesto Londoño works in a compound. He cannot get out of it very often to pursue news and feature stories as easily as he would like. Security is far too strict and conditions where he writes and reports can be quite dangerous at times. Londoño is a correspondent based in Baghdad for The Washington Post. Because of the circumstances of his bureau’s location and the war surrounding him, his reporting and story writing opportunities are often limited by safety and access issues. But he still writes regularly about the U.S. troops and other events in Iraq. In his second assignment in Iraq, the young journalist, who joined The Post after working as a city desk reporter for the Dallas Morning News, still searches for a good feature story to balance the breaking news he is expected to provide to readers of his newspaper and its Web site.
