Since the Crimean war saw its first modern war correspondent, the media and the public have been looking into new ways of documenting wars as accurately as possible. Embedded journalism, news reporters attached to military units directly in war zones, is a way for governments to promote their military transparency by opening it to the media. Embedded journalism saw an important rise during the Afghan and Iraq war. However, April Thorn from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reported that just as the Iraq war started, fifteen journalists, many of them embeds, had already lost…