Internet media company Yahoo Inc. on Monday said it had hired a veteran war correspondent to tell personalized tales from conflicts around the world in a bid to bring younger viewers back into the news fold.

Journalist Kevin Sites, whose video footage of a U.S. Marine shooting dead an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in a Falluja mosque last year prompted widespread controversy, will visit 31 conflict zones, from Africa to the Middle East and South America.

He will file text entries, photos and video footage for his show, “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone.” Coverage will focus on the individual stories of people caught in conflict.

“I’d say the toughest audience to get right now in news is the 18-to-34 year olds — almost all of the network and cable news programs skew older than 50,” Lloyd Braun, head of Yahoo’s media group, told Reuters.

“I think that younger demographic is going to find this appealing,” he said. “There is a strong desire among that generation to feel like there is transparency, that they themselves have a voice they can express.”

Sites, 42, will write and shoot the news on his own, with a backpack full of recording and transmission gear, but will make use of local translators and security staff on the ground, Yahoo executives said.

He has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years with such organizations as NBC and cable’s CNN.

“We’re at the nexus of a new wave of journalism,” Sites said on Monday. “I want to take my coverage where there aren’t (headlines).” He begins his journey at the end of September.

Yahoo plans similar ventures in other news and information categories as well as new forms of Internet content that it can call its own, Braun said.

Kevin Sites’ personal blog hasn’t been updated since the end of January; but, it can give you a firsthand idea of what he’s about.