"I had become known as a conflict photographer. I could ask for assignments to almost any place, as long as people were killing each other," says South African photographer, Greg Marinovich in his autobiographical book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War. After covering violence in South Africa during the early 1990s and winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work, Marinovich was beginning to learn about the benefits and costs of being a photojournalist covering violence. Conflict journalism is a profession that offers a lot to aspiring journalists, while asking a lot of them in return.

On April 28, 2011 CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent South African reporter Lara Logan went on 60 Minutes and told the story of how she had been raped by a mob during Egyptian celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square on February 11 of that same year.