IN MEMORY OF JOURNALISTS WHO HAVE DIED
IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH.
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IN MEMORY OF JOURNALISTS WHO HAVE DIED
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William Biggart
1947-2001
(1947-2001)William Biggart
Date of Birth: 1947
Date of Death: Sep 01, 2001
News Organization: Freelance
Nationality: German
Biography
A freelance photographer, Biggart lived near Union Square, not far from the World Trade Center, and had rushed to cover the story after hearing the first explosion. During his journalism career, which began in 1970, Biggart covered the Middle East, the Gulf War and Northern Ireland, among other hot spots.
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David Bloom
1963-2003
(1963-2003)David Bloom
Date of Birth: 1963
Date of Death: Apr 06, 2003
News Organization: NBC News
Nationality: American
Biography
An NBC News correspondent, Bloom covered the war in Iraq and was reporting from the Iraqi desert. He was married and had three daughters. He had been the anchor of the weekend “Today” program on NBC.
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Donald Bolles
1928-1976
(1928-1976)Donald Bolles
Date of Birth: 1928
Date of Death: Jan 13, 1976
News Organization: Arizona Republic Newspaper
Nationality: American
Biography
Died after losing both legs and his right arm in a car-bomb blast in a Phoenix parking lot where he had gone to obtain information about allegedly fraudulent land deals involving Arizona’s top politicians.
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Robert Brown
1942-1978
(1942-1978)Robert Brown
Date of Birth: 1942
Date of Death: Nov 18, 1978
News Organization: NBC Cameraman
Nationality: American
Biography
Killed with two other journalists and U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., at the Port Kaituma airstrip outside Jonestown, the home of a religious sect led by Jim Jones. The group was investigating rumors of torture, kidnapping, and other offenses by the sect, known as the Peoples Temple. He spent most of his career in California but had also worked in Asia and South America.
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Larry Burrows
1926-1971
(1926-1971)Larry Burrows
Date of Birth: 1926
Date of Death: Feb 10, 1971
News Organization: Life Magazine
Nationality: British
Biography
He covered wars, bullfighting with Ernest Hemingway, and Billy Graham’s tours in England, among other assignments. He was a two-time winner of the Robert Capa Award for “superlative photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” Burrows’s remains are interred at the base of the Journalists Memorial.
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Robert Capa
1913-1954
(1913-1954)Robert Capa
Date of Birth: 1913
Date of Death: May 25, 1954
News Organization: Life Magazine
Nationality: Hungarian-American
Biography
Killed by a mine near Hanoi. Capa’s fame as a war photographer began with the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He also took memorable shots of the beach at Normandy.The New York Times called him a “specialist in the shot-and-shell school of photography … the kind of close-up lens artist who made veteran combat troops blink in uneasy disbelief.” He covered five wars in 18 years, including World War II. The Overseas Press Club gives an annual award in his name for “superlative photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.”Capa received the Medal of Freedom from from U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1947 for his pictures of WWII.
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Dickey Chapelle
1919-1965
(1919-1965)Dickey Chapelle
Date of Birth: 1919
Date of Death: Nov 04, 1965
News Organization: Freelance
Nationality: American
Biography
Chapelle was one of the founding generation of war correspondents when women were not officially allowed to cover combat. A daring pilot, parachutist and war correspondent- photographer, she covered World War II, the 1956 Hungarian revolution, the 1960 Algerian uprising, Lebanon, the battles of Fidel Castro in Cuba and the fighting in Vietnam and Laos. She was born Georgette Meyer in 1918 and had married and divorced Anthony Chapelle, a freelance journalist. She is the earliest known female correspondent to die in the Vietnam fighting.
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Marie Colvin
1956-2012
(1956-2012)Marie Colvin
Date of Birth: 1956
Date of Death: Feb 22, 2012
News Organization: The Sunday Times of London
Nationality: American
Biography
Accepting the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation in 2000, Colvin said, “What’s important is trying to bear witness. The pain of war is beyond telling.” French photographer Remi Ochlik was killed in the same attack. The Marie Colvin Memorial Foundation was established to honor Marie’s legacy by supporting organizations working to ease the suffering of victims of war. She was known for her emotional accounts of civilians caught in the threat of war.
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Michel du Cille
1956-2014
(1956-2014)Michel du Cille
Date of Birth: 1956
Date of Death: Dec 11, 2014
News Organization: The Washington Post
Nationality: Jamaican
Biography
Despite the risks, Washington Post photographer Michel du Cille made three trips to Liberia in four months to photograph victims of the deadly Ebola virus. Du Cille became the Post’s director of photography in 2007. But his passion for reporting drew him back into the field to cover dangerous assignments such as the war in Afghanistan, where he came under fire in 2013. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people.
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Dan Eldon
1970-1993
(1970-1993)Dan Eldon
Date of Birth: 1970
Date of Death: Jul 12, 1993
News Organization: Reuters
Nationality: British-American
Biography
Eldon was covering the violent famine in Somalia when US Marines made the fateful mistake of bombing what they thought was a council of warlords in Mogadishu. Many innocent lives were lost, and in the ensuing riot, Dan and three other journalists were killed.
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Gerald Fischman
1957-2018
(1957-2018)Gerald Fischman
Date of Birth: 1957
Date of Death: Jun 28, 2018
News Organization: Annapolis, Maryland
Nationality: American
Biography
As shotgun blasts ran through the office glass doors, staffers hid under desks and behind filing cabinets. Some tried to escape through the back door, but the gunman had barricaded it shut. Editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, “the conscience and voice” of the Gazette, was shot dead, along with community beat reporter Wendi Winters 65; editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen, 59; sports reporter John McNamara, 56; and sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34. The accused gunman, who was arrested at the scene, reportedly held a grudge against the newspaper because it reported in 2011 about a harassment charge against him. The newspaper had received online threats from the accused gunman. The Capital Gazette staff was awarded a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in April 2019 for their courageous commitment to report the news after the tragedy.
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Sean Flynn
1941-1970
(1941-1970)Sean Flynn
Date of Birth: 1941
Date of Death: Apr 06, 1970
News Organization: United Press International
Nationality: American
Biography
He was believed to have been captured by the Khmer Rouge with freelance journalist Dana Stone. The two men had been nicknamed “the Easy Riders” by the Phnom Penh press corps. There have been conflicting reports about their fate. He was a photographer for UPI, Time, Life, and other news outlets. He was the son of actor Errol Flynn and actress Lili Damita
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James Foley
1973-2014
(1973-2014)James Foley
Date of Birth: 1973
Date of Death: Aug 19, 2014
News Organization: Freelance
Nationality: American
Biography
American photojournalist James Foley filed his photos from an Internet café in Syria on Nov. 22, 2012 and was headed to Turkey when armed men overtook his taxi and forced him into a van at gunpoint. He was covering Syria’s civil war for GlobalPost and Agence France‐Presse. A seasoned war correspondent, Foley was held captive for 44 days in 2011 while covering the uprising in Libya. After his assasination in Syria, his parents put out a statement: “He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people.”
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David Gilkey
1966-2016
(1966-2016)David Gilkey
Date of Birth: 1966
Date of Death: Jun 05, 2016
News Organization: Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Nationality: American
Biography
Gilkey was a seasoned photographer and videographer whose memorable images documented the end of apartheid in South Africa, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, famine in Somalia, and the Ebola epidemic in Liberia. Weeks before Gilkey left for Afghanistan, a friend asked if he planned to give up war reporting. “Not yet,” said Gilkey. “These wars are not over. We need to keep going.”
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Charles Govin
1873-1896
(1873-1896)Charles Govin
Date of Birth: 1873
Date of Death: July 09, 1896
News Organization: Equator-Democrat
Nationality: American
Biography
The correspondent for his own Key West, Florida newspaper had landed in Cuba just three days before Govin’s death. He was a member of a prominent Florida family. His murder helped inflame passions that led to the Spanish-American War.
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Don Harris
1976-1978
(1976-1978)Don Harris
Date of Birth: 1976
Date of Death: Nov 18, 1978
News Organization: NBC Correspondent
Nationality: American
Biography
Killed with two other journalists and U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., at the Port Kaituma airstrip outside Jonestown, the home of a religious sect led by Jim Jones. The group was investigating rumors of torture, kidnapping, and other offenses by the sect, known as the Peoples Temple. An award-winning correspondent, he had worked for television stations in several U.S. cities and was stationed in southeast Asia for a year with his network.
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Sharon Herbaugh
1954-1993
(1954-1993)Sharon Herbaugh
Date of Birth: 1954
Date of Death: Apr 16, 1993
News Organization: The Associated Press
Nationality: American
Biography
Herbaugh died along with 14 others enroute to writing a story on the excruciating efforts to clean up the tens of thousands of landmines left behind in Afghanistan by retreating Soviet forces, mines that were killing and maiming hundreds of children. She had covered the war in Afghanistan for four years and was the first woman among 22 AP reporters and photographers killed in the line of duty beginning in 1938.
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Tim Hetherington
1970-2011
(1970-2011)Tim Hetherington
Date of Birth: 1970
Date of Death: Apr 20, 2011
News Organization: Freelance
Nationality: British
Biography
A photojournalist, Hetherington was a contributor to Vanity Fair magazine, which said he was “widely respected by his peers for his bravery and camaraderie.” He also directed the Academy Award-nominated film “Restrepo,” a documentary about the Afghan war.
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Rob Hiaasen
1959-2018
(1959-2018)Rob Hiaasen
Date of Birth: 1959
Date of Death: Jun 28, 2018
News Organization: Annapolis, Maryland
Nationality: American
Biography
As shotgun blasts ran through the office glass doors, staffers hid under desks and behind filing cabinets. Some tried to escape through the back door, but the gunman had barricaded it shut. Editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, “the conscience and voice” of the Gazette, was shot dead. Community beat reporter Wendi Winters 65; editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen, 59; sports reporter John McNamara, 56; and sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34 were also among the fallen. The accused gunman, who was arrested at the scene, reportedly held a grudge against the newspaper because it reported in 2011 about a harassment charge against him. The newspaper had received online threats from the accused gunman. The Capital Gazette staff was awarded a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in April 2019 for their courageous commitment to report the news after the tragedy.
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Albert Hinton
1904-1950
(1904-1950)Albert Hinton
Date of Birth: 1904
Date of Death: Jul 27, 1950
News Organization: The Norfolk Journal and Guide
Nationality: African American
Biography
Hinton was a correspondent for the National Newspaper Publishers Association| National Negro Publishers Association and was Associate Editor of the Norfolk Journal and Guide. Before the Korean War, he covered race‐related issues, including the trial of the Scottsboro Boys in Decatur, Alabama. He was a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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Chris Hondros
1970-2011
(1970-2011)Chris Hondros
Date of Birth: 1970
Date of Death: Apr 20, 2011
News Organization: Getty Images
Nationality: American
Biography
Hondros was an award-winning photographer who had covered conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2006, he won the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for photos he shot in Iraq. A White House statement said, “Chris’s tragic death underscores the need to protect journalists as they cover conflicts across the globe.”
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Charles Horman
1942-1973
(1942-1973)Charles Horman
Date of Birth: 1942
Date of Death: Sep 18, 1973
News Organization: Freelance
Nationality: American
Biography
Executed in Chile’s national stadium in Santiago after a Sept. 11 right‐wing coup. A Harvard graduate, Horman was arrested in his home one day before his death. His father’s investigation of his fate inspired the 1982 film “Missing.” A State Department memo released in October 1999 cites circumstantial evidence that the CIA “may have played an unfortunate part” in Horman’s death.
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Michael Kelly
1957-2003
(1957-2003)Michael Kelly
Date of Birth: 1957
Date of Death: Apr 04, 2003
News Organization: Atlantic Monthly
Nationality: American
Biography
In addition to being editor-at-large for Atlantic Monthly, Kelly was a columnist for The Washington Post. Previously, he worked for other newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He was 46, married and the father of two young boys
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Mark Kellogg
1831-1876
(1831-1876)Mark Kellogg
Date of Birth: 1831
Date of Death: June 25, 1876
News Organization: Bismark Tribune
Nationality: Canadian
Biography
Died along with more than 200 soldiers under Lt. Col. George Custer’s command. Given the assignment by the editor of his Dakota Territory newspaper at the last minute, Kellogg was the only correspondent at the battle but was never able to report his story. His last report said, in part, “by the time this reaches you we will have met and fought the red devils, and with what result remains to be seen. I go with Custer and will be at the death.”
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Elijah Lovejoy
1802-1837
(1802-1837)Elijah Lovejoy
Date of Birth: 1802
Date of Death: Nov 7, 1837
News Organization: Alton Observer
Nationality: American
Biography
A Presbyterian minister and a fervent abolitionist, Lovejoy was shot to death two days before his 35th birthday as he sought to protect one of his newspaper’s newly delivered presses from a pro‐slavery mob. Mobs had previously destroyed three other presses. An abolitionist newspaper, the Emancipator Extra, praised him in poetry and prose as “liberty’s martyr.” Today, Colby College gives a press freedom award in his name.
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Carley McCord
1989-2019
(1989-2019)Carley McCord
Date of Birth: 1989
Date of Death: Dec 28, 2019
News Organization: Lafayette, Louisiana
Nationality: American
Biography
The day before she died, sports reporter Carley McCord came in on her day off to report breaking news about the New Orleans Saints for WDSU-TV in New Orleans, La. McCord’s father-in-law, Steve Ensminger, was the LSU offensive coordinator. LSU won and paid tribute to McCord by giving Ensminger the game ball. McCord was an in-game host for the New Orleans Saints and the Pelicans. She also reported for Cox Sports Television and ESPN3.
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John McNamara
1962-2018
(1962-2018)John McNamara
Date of Death: Jun 28, 2018
News Organization: Annapolis, Maryland
Nationality: American
Biography
As shotgun blasts ran through the office glass doors, staffers hid under desks and behind filing cabinets. Some tried to escape through the back door, but the gunman had barricaded it shut. Editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, “the conscience and voice” of the Gazette, was shot dead. Community beat reporter Wendi Winters 65; editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen, 59; sports reporter John McNamara, 56; and sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34 were also among the fallen. The accused gunman, who was arrested at the scene, reportedly held a grudge against the newspaper because it reported in 2011 about a harassment charge against him. The newspaper had received online threats from the accused gunman. The Capital Gazette staff was awarded a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in April 2019 for their courageous commitment to report the news after the tragedy.
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William Moore
1910-1950
(1910-1950)William Moore
Date of Birth: 1910
Date of Death: Jul 30, 1950
News Organization: The Associated Press
Nationality: American
Biography
Moore was killed while helping wounded American soldiers overwhelmed by North Korean forces west of Pusan. He had worked as a reporter for the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman before joining the AP in Denver in 1937. Moore had also served as a major in the U.S. Army in Korea before returning to Korea as an AP correspondent in 1948. His body was not recovered and identified until nearly five years after his death..
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Joseph Morton
1911-1945
(1911-1945)Joseph Morton
Date of Birth: 1911
Date of Death: Jan 24, 1945
News Organization: Assoaciated Press
Nationality: American
Biography
In dedicating a plaque where he was captured, an Associated Press executive commented: “Joe Morton came to this mountain in 1944 trying to report a story no other correspondent could tell, and trying in his way … to bring freedom from oppression, light into darkness, and tell others of the brave deeds of courageous men and women.” Morton was known for reporting exclusive stories, including the first interview with Romania’s King Michael after the collapse of Romania’s pro‐Nazi regime.
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Toni Motta
1948-1980
(1948-1980)Toni Motta
Date of Birth: 1948
Date of Death: Nov 1980
News Organization: The Daily News
Nationality: Italian
Biography
Motta disappeared in November during the so-called “dirty war” in Argentina against lefists and dissidents. An American citizen, she was a correspondent for her Rome-based newspaper, The Daily News. During the military regime of 1976 to 1983, thousands of Argentines, including journalists, were imprisoned, tortured, and killed without trial.
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Elizabeth Neuffer
1956-2003
(1956-2003)Elizabeth Neuffer
Date of Birth: 1956
Date of Death: May 09, 2003
News Organization: The Boston Globe
Nationality: American
Biography
An award-winning journalist who worked in many different countries, Neuffer was a 1998 winner of the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award. The award noted that she had been “menaced by gun‐toting rebels, subjected to death threats, abducted by soldiers, robbed and threatened with rape.”
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Alison Parker
1991-2015
(1991-2015)Alison Parker
Date of Birth: 1991
Date of Death: Aug 26, 2015
News Organization: Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia
Nationality: American
Biography
TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were interviewing local chamber of commerce official Vicki Gardner about upcoming events for the anniversary celebration of Smith Mountaian Lake when shots rang out. Parker and Ward fell to the ground, murdered on live TV. Gardner was wounded. The shooter was a disgruntled former WDBJ‐TV reporter who – in a chilling use of social media – filmed the attack with a body camera and posted it to Facebook, adding an angry rant on Twitter. Hours later, he shot himself after being cornered by police.
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Nancy Parker
1966-2019
(1966-2019)Nancy Parker
Date of Birth: 1966
Date of Death: Aug 16, 2019
News Organization: New Orleans, Louisiana
Nationality: American
Biography
Nancy Parker was a well-known local news anchor at WVUE in New Orleans, where she had reported for 23 years on stories ranging from Hurricane Katrina to Pope John Paul II’s visit to St. Louis. Before arriving in New Orleans, Parker had reported in Columbus, Ga.; Montgomery, Ala.; and Baton Rouge, La. Known for her personal connections with co-workers and viewers, Parker won five Emmy Awards for her in-depth documentaries and feature stories.
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Daniel Pearl
1963-2002
(1963-2002)Daniel Pearl
Date of Birth: 1963
Date of Death: Feb 01, 2002
News Organization: The Wall Street Journal
Nationality: American
Biography
Pearl had been reporting on a terrorist who tried to blow up an airplane during a trans-Atlantic flight. The date of his murder is uncertain, but authorities announced his death after receiving a videotape of the murder. Four days after his disappearance, “The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty” sent an e-mail to news organizations claiming responsibility for the kidnapping, saying Pearl was an American spy. The e-mail contained four photos of Pearl, including one in which he is holding a Jan. 24 newspaper. On Feb. 12, Pakistani police announced the arrest of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, whom they identified as the prime suspect. In April, Saeed and three accomplices were charged with kidnap and murder. The trial was closed to the press and public. In mid-May, as the trial was under way, police found a dismembered body, identified as Pearl’s, buried outside Karachi.
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George Polk
1913-1948
(1913-1948)George Polk
Date of Birth: 1913
Date of Death: May 16, 1948
News Organization: CBS
Nationality: American
Biography
His body was found washed up on the shore of Salonika Bay. He was believed to be on the way to meet the leader of communist‐led guerrillas during the Greek civil war when he disappeared. Long Island University’s Brooklyn Center gives an annual award in his name for foreign and domestic reporting.
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Kent Potter
1927-1971
(1927-1971)Kent Potter
Date of Birth: 1927
Date of Death: Feb 10, 1971
News Organization: United Press International
Nationality: American
Biography
A prize-winning photographer from Pennsylvania, he went to Saigon in 1968 and became his agency’s news photo manager for Vietnam. Potter’s remains are interred at the base of the Journalists Memorial.
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Ernie Pyle
1873-1896
(1873-1896)Ernie Pyle
Date of Birth: 1873
Date of Death: Apr 18, 1896
News Organization: Scrippts-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Nationality: American
Biography
The death of the Pulitzer Prize‐winning syndicated columnist prompted a front‐page story in The New York Times. President Harry Truman said, “The nation is quickly saddened. No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen.” Gen. George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff, said: “Ernie Pyle belonged to the millions of soldiers he had made his friends.” Pyle was killed just short of his 45th birthday ‐‐ older than many war correspondents and generally much older than the soldiers whose actions he reported.
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Gregory Robinson
1951-1978
(1951-1978)Gregory Robinson
Date of Birth: 1951
Date of Death: Nov 18, 1978
News Organization: The San Francisco Examiner
Nationality: American
Biography
“Killed with two other journalists and U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., at the Port Kaituma airstrip outside Jonestown, the home of a religious sect led by Jim Jones. The group was investigating rumors of torture, kidnapping, and other offenses by the sect, known as the Peoples Temple. A photographer, Robinson had undertaken a wide
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Avijit Roy
1972-2015
(1972-2015)Avijit Roy
Date of Birth: 1972
Date of Death: Feb 26, 2015
News Organization: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nationality: Bangladeshi American
Biography
Blogger Avijit Roy warned that religious extremism was a virus that “will wreak havoc on society in epidemic proportions.” Based in the United States, Roy traveled to Bangladesh regularly for the national book fair and was attacked shortly afterward. An Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the attack on his life. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets to demand justice. Four other secular bloggers and writers were murdered in Bangladesh in 2015, including Roy’s publisher, in unprecedented attacks on free expression.
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Kurt Schork
1947-2000
(1947-2000)Kurt Schork
Date of Birth: 1947
Date of Death: May 24, 2000
News Organization: Reuters
Nationality: American
Biography
Escorted by pro-government soldiers, Schork and several journalists were traveling in two vehicles when rebels opened fire.Schork was a native of Washington, D.C., and a Rhodes scholar. He had reported for Reuters for the past decade, covering conflict in Sri Lanka, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo and East Timor.
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Philippa Schuyler
1931-1967
(1931-1967)Philippa Schuyler
Date of Birth: 1931
Date of Death: May 09, 1967
News Organization: Manchester Union Leader
Nationality: American
Biography
Killed when the U.S. Army helicopter carrying her crashed in Danang Bay. A child prodigy and later a concert pianist, composer, author, and journalist, she was a correspondent for New Hampshire’s largest daily newspaper. She was to leave Vietnam three days earlier, but delayed her departure to help evacuate children from Hue to Danang.
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Anthony Shadid
1968-2012
(1968-2012)Anthony Shadid
Date of Birth: 1968
Date of Death: Feb 16, 2012
News Organization: The New York Times
Nationality: American
Biography
Shadid was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Times photographer Tyler Hicks carried his body into Turkey. New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson said, “Anthony died as he lived, determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle East.”
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Steven Sotloff
1983-2014
(1983-2014)Steven Sotloff
Date of Birth: 1983
Date of Death: Sep 02, 2014
News Organization: Freelance
Nationality: American
Biography
When American journalist Steven Sotloff crossed the border into Syria on Aug. 4, 2013, his car was stopped at gunpoint, and he was taken hostage by ISIS militants. A fearless reporter with a passion for the Middle East, Sotloff covered the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings in Libya, Egypt and Yemen for Time Magazine and other publications.
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Dana Stone
1939-1970
(1939-1970)Dana Stone
Date of Birth: 1939
Date of Death: Apr 06, 1970
News Organization: CBS
Nationality: American
Biography
He and freelance journalist Sean Flynn were believed to have been captured by the Khmer Rouge. The two men had been nicknamed “the Easy Riders” by the Phnom Penh press corps. There have been conflicting reports about their fate. A photographer, Stone was working for CBS News when he disappeared.
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Nicholas Stroh
1938-1971
(1938-1971)Nicholas Stroh
Date of Birth: 1938
Date of Death: Jul 09, 1971
News Organization: Freelance
Nationality: American
Biography
He was investigating reports of an army massacre among provincial tribes during the coup that brought Idi Amin to power. His body and that of a fellow American, professor Robert Seidle, were later doused with gasoline and burned. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, and heir to the Stroh beer fortune. He wrote for The Washington Star and other U.S. newspapers.
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Miles Tierney
1965-1999
(1965-1999)Miles Tierney
Date of Birth: 1965
Date of Death: Jan 10, 1999
News Organization: The Associated Press
Nationality: American
Biography
The Nairobi-based producer for The Associated Press, Tierney was covering Sierra Leone’s civil war when rebels opened fire. Tierney joined the AP in 1996, establishing the agency’s first TV bureau in New York.
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Alexandra Tuttle
1959-1993
(1959-1993)Alexandra Tuttle
Date of Birth: 1959
Date of Death: Sep 22, 1993
News Organization: The Wall Street Journal
Nationality: French
Biography
Tuttle was a freelance reporter on assignment for the Journal. She was killed in the battle between Georgian troops and separatists for control of a regional capital.
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Adam Ward
1988-2015
(1988-2015)Adam Ward
Date of Birth: 1988
Date of Death: Aug 28, 2015
News Organization: Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia
Nationality: American
Biography
WDBJ‐TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were interviewing local chamber of commerce official Vicki Gardner about upcoming events for the anniversary celebration of Smith Mountaian Lake when shots rang out. Parker and Ward fell to the ground, murdered on live TV. Gardner was wounded. The shooter was a disgruntled former WDBJ‐TV reporter who – in a chilling use of social media – filmed the attack with a body camera and posted it to Facebook, adding an angry rant on Twitter. Hours later, he shot himself after being cornered by police.
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Wendi Winters
1953-2018
(1953-2018)Wendi Winters
Date of Birth: 1953
Date of Death: Jun 28, 2018
News Organization: Annapolis, Maryland
Nationality: American
Biography
As shotgun blasts ran through the office glass doors, staffers hid under desks and behind filing cabinets. Some tried to escape through the back door, but the gunman had barricaded it shut. Editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, “the conscience and voice” of the Gazette, was shot dead. Community beat reporter Wendi Winters 65; editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen, 59; sports reporter John McNamara, 56; and sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34 were also among the fallen. The accused gunman, who was arrested at the scene, reportedly held a grudge against the newspaper because it reported in 2011 about a harassment charge against him. The newspaper had received online threats from the accused gunman. The Capital Gazette staff was awarded a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in April 2019 for their courageous commitment to report the news after the tragedy.
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Ted Yates
1930-1967
(1930-1967)Ted Yates
Date of Birth: 1930
Date of Death: Jun 05, 1967
News Organization: NBC
Nationality: American
Biography
A television producer-director, he had been fired on by North Vietnamese in Laos, stoned by communists in Sumatra, and caught in a student riot in Java. “Covering combat zones is spooky work,” Yates once said. “You have to stick your neck out a mile.” Said CBS colleague Eric Sevareid about Yates: “He was too brave.”
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