And To Think We Knew Them When They Were Mere Bloggers:

When I found Rinat Malkes' blog four years ago, she was a struggling new immigrant student from Brazil, fighting to learn Hebrew, and trying not to give up her journalism ambitions merely because she was transplanted. On her blog, we followed her as she left school, traded Jerusalem for Tel Aviv, worked for various television channels, was overworked, underpaid, and ultimately, found her niche as a foreign correspondent for Brazilian newspapers and television.

She spent the last few weeks in Lebanon a year after the war and now, in addition to sending the news to Brazil, she's sold her story and her video to Ynet (a preview is here - Hebrew link but you can watch the video) and Yediot Aharonot, who will be featuring her tommorow on their front page.

(After writing this, I tried to put in the link to her blog and to my surprise found that has evaporated -- don't know if she did this temporarily for safety reasons when she was in Lebanon, or if she's left the blogosphere permanently)

Meanwhile, her fellow-traveller and blogger, Lisa Goldman will be appearing on Israel's Channel 10 with her own sojourn to Lebanon complete with video.

And very, very soon (right Lisa?) she will be writing in English on Pajamas Media about her trip, submitting her copy to a very brilliant, perceptive, and modest editor.

UPDATE: There she was, cool as a cucumber, chatting with Miki and Yaacov, the anchors, from her Beirut balcony.