dispatches is a quarterly current affairs journal in a book format in which each publication examines a single issue. It gives photography an equal standing with the written word and by commissioning original long form journalism from various writers, it intends to bring attention to subjects which might be neglected in the mainstream press. For the fourth issue, dispatches_out of poverty, editors Mort Rosenblum and Gary Knight travelled through corners of Ohio, United States, with notebook and camera, reporting on the newly economically poor, jobless residents of formerly thriving Midwest towns where foreclosure has left empty and available houses. Crossing and contrasting continents, in India, these editors focused on the two-thirds of Indians as yet unaffected by India's recent economic development, who live on less than US$1.40 a day.

dispatches_out of poverty authors and photographers examine the visual and emotional aspects of poverty; those historically economically impoverished and those newly affected by economic downturns. Writers also consider how aid is spent, how an area of former conflict tries to rebuild and lift itself from economic poverty, and how inner city economic poverty passes through generational changes within gang culture.

Issues include: essays; photo essays; multimedia; and cartoons.

Contents of issue number 4 include:

• Mort Rosenblum - The Rich and the Desperate
• Gary Knight - American Postcards; Amongst the Poor; In Justice, In Prison, In Rio
• Jon Lee Anderson - Hungry in Zimbabwe
• Shubhranshu Choudhary - The Dark Side
• Jerome Tubiana - Learning from Darfur
• Edward Girardet - Why Aid Fails
• Emma Daly - Poverty and War: Lessons in Bosnia
• Jeffrey Fagan - Blocked Exits
• Jeff Danziger - The Gate

Email from Fiona Turner to The Communication Initiative on June 8 2009.