Dispatches: Notes from the Field - The Digital Journalist

Presents

	Saddam's Spider Hole Two pairs of shoes still in their boxes: A pair of clean new Hongmahwang loafers and a pair of gilded, tacky Italian slippers. The footwear of a madman caught last month hiding in a rat-filled hole... by Chris Hondros
	Down the Spider-Hole It looked a lot bigger on TV. That is, before the journalists started popping out of it like little jack-in-the-boxes... by Dana Smillie
	The Unbearable Heaviness of Truthtelling I have been desensitized to a lot of things in my reporting career... by Zelie Pollon
	Is This Heaven? No, It's Iowa! Some ask where is it? Others joke, Iowa, what's there to do in Iowa? by Shaun Heasley
	The Life Which Stopped in 13 Seconds When I entered the ancient city of BAM it was about midnight, 26 of December, the very end of the day the earthquake had hit in the early morning... by Yalda Moayeri