Obituary column
Webb McKinley dies at 90
Webb McKinley, a former Associated Press foreign correspondent, has died. He was 90 years old. During his 35 year career with AP he worked in Detroit, Rome, Istanbul – becoming chief of Middle East services in Beirut in 1960. AP has more, “He was larger than life,” [daughter Judy McKinley said]. “He was one of […]
The Carsten Thomassen Kabul library
A new library in Kabul is to be named after the journalist Carsten Thomassen who was shot dead during an attack on the Serena Hotel in the Afghan capital in January, The Afghan Minister of Education has announced that the new library at the National Institute for Leadership and Adminstration will be named after Thomassen. […]
Journalist shot dead in Iraq
From the International Herald Tribune, yet more tidings of joy for journalism in the Middle East, An Iraqi journalist who disappeared after leaving his offices to buy some supplies was found shot to death Tuesday in central Baghdad, according to his organization. Hisham Michwit Hamdan, 27, went missing Sunday after he left the offices of […]
Journalist murdered in Quetta
Paramedical workers carry the body of famous journalist Dr Chishti Mujahid on an ambulance – PakTribune According to The Daily Times Dr. Chishti Mujahid, a senior journalist and press photographer, was shot dead in Quetta on Saturday morning. The banned militant group, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), has claimed responsibility for the murder. Dr. Mujahid […]
War correspondent dies in ski accident
Retired ABC News war correspondent John McWethy has died while skiing in Colorado. He ran into a tree at on the intermediate ‘Porcupine’ trail at Keystone Ski Resort on Wednesday morning, According to Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson, John McWethy was skiing fast and missed a turn, sliding chest-first into a tree. Richardson ruled the […]
R.K. Karanjia 1912 – 2008
The New Post India reports that veteran journalist, editor and war correspondent Russi K. Karanjia passed away in Mumbai last Friday. He was 95. During World War II, he worked as a war correspondent, reporting from the front lines in Burma and the Assam region of India. He became famous in 1945 for publishing exclusive […]
The death of a war reporter
Ernie Pyle is one of the most celebrated war correspondents. He made his name during World War II and was killed by the Japanese sixty-three years ago. A picture showing the death of Pyle recently surfaced. The negative has long since been lost and only a few prints exist, “It’s a striking and painful image, […]
Alaa Abdul Kareem buried in Najaf
Alaa Abdul Kareem, who was killed on Tuesday when a bomb went off on the road between Balad and Samarra, was buried in Najaf yesterday. Kareem had been working for the TV station, Al Furat. Asad Khadhim, Chief Correspondent for the station, talked to the New York Times about his funeral, Mr. Kareem was married […]
Flower power photographer dies
Photographer Bernie Boston has died at his home after a long battle with amyloidosis, a rare blood disease. He was 74. His flower power picture was a Pulitzer Prize runner up. Among several honors, “Flower Power” was named No. 30 on a list of the 100 greatest war photos of all times, Bob Brown, a […]
Carsten Thomassen laid to rest
Norwegians said a final farewell to the journalist Carsten Thomassen today. He was murdered, along with six others, at the Serena hotel in Kabul last week. The Norwegian Foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, who was also in the Serena when Thomassen was killed spoke at the funeral, “Carsten was living proof that a free press […]
Creighton Burns
The former editor of The Age, Creighton Burns, died yesterday in Cabrini Hospital, Australia aged 82. Burns served eight years as editor of The Age from 1981 to 1989. In 1991 he received the Order of Australia. He joinied The Age in 1964 as a foreign correspondent, serving in Singapore, Vietnam and the United States, […]
Carsten Thomassen killed at the Serena
The gunfire and bomb blasts that rocked the only luxury hotel in Kabul yesterday killed Norwegian journalist Carsten Thomassen. He wrote for the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet. He was reporting on the visit of Jonas Gahr Støre, the Norwegian Foreign Minister. The International federation of Journalists condemns the attack, “This attack shows that Afghanistan is one […]
Richard Wild “unlawfully killed”
Richard Wild was killed while working on a feature about museum looting in Baghdad in July 2003. He had only been in the country for two weeks and wanted to establish himself as a war reporter. He was shot in the back of the head. At the time Oxford Coroner’s Court heard that the US […]
Kate Webb remembered
Journalist and author Steve Le Vine remembers Kate Webb who died in May 2007, It almost didn’t matter how many consecutive nights you sat down with Kate for a beer. She had another hair-raising memory to recount, the type of story that — if it alone had happened to anyone else, why he or she […]
Christina Lamb remembers Bhutto
Award winning journalist and club member Christina Lamb remembers Benazir Bhutto in today’s Sunday Times, We had just entered Santa’s castle in the pretty Portuguese village of Obidos on Thursday when my phone beeped with the first text message. “Benazir has been critically wounded in bomb attack – in hospital undergoing treatment.†I think I […]
John Moore in Rawalpindi
The New York Times uses a combination of images, audio and text to rapidly create a very powerful and informative multimedia report from Getty’s John Moore who was at the scene of Benazir Bhutto’s assasination in Rawalpindi yesterday. via Ben
Killed in Baghdad
Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi, Special Correspondent with the excellent Alive in Baghdad, was shot and killed in his home in Habibya, part of the Sadr city, on December 14th. The Alive in Baghdad blog has more, On Friday the 14th at 11:30pm Baghdad time, Iraqi National Guard forces raided the street where Ali’s house is, one […]
Shelley Rohde dies
In 1954, while working for The Daily Express Shelley Rohde became the first female foreign correspondent assigned to Moscow when she was aged just 21, She learned Russian and when former Russian premier Nikolai Bulganin and communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev visited Britain in the late 1950s she acted as an interpreter for the press […]
Dick McGowan dies
Former war reporter and White House correspondent Richard “Dick” McGowan died on Monday. He worked as a correspondent with the Army’s 7th Infantry Division during the Korean War, mainly for Stars & Stripes and Army Times where he, “brought the front lines to the front porch with combat stories about hometown GIs.” He later went […]
Lola Almudevar killed in car crash
BBC video journalist Lola Almudevar and four others have died and four others have died in a pileup in Bolivia, which took place en route to the city of Sucre in the early hours of Sunday. Eduardo GarcÃa Gil, a Spanish reporter with Reuters, was also said to have been injured in the accident. link […]
Lester Ziffren 1906-2007
Lester Ziffren, who covered the Spanish Civil War for United Press, has died at the very fine age of 101. Before his death he was believed to be the oldest surviving employee of United Press. The Quad City Times has this interesting snippet from his reporting of the civil war, “Deadline Every Minute,†a 1957 […]
Conpiracy surrounds Saipov
Journalist Alisher Saipov working in southern Kyrgyzstan was gunned down on the evening of October 24th. The Institute for War and Peace reporting has more details and discussion, Saipov, 26, was killed by three gunshots on the evening of October 24 in the centre of Osh, the major city in the south of Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan, […]
National Geographic pay tribute to Boulat
Marilyn from National Geographic drops by in the comments to alert us to a NGS tribute page to Alexandra Boulat who was a Frontline Club member and event speaker and who recently passed away.
He ate censors for breakfast
Canadian reporter Bill Boss died last week at 90 years old. He was buried on Saturday, First as a soldier, then as a civilian reporter, Boss followed the Canadian army through Italy – at one point actually preceding the troops into Florence after it was liberated by Italian partisans. He went on to report from […]
Alexandra Boulat
Photojournalist and co-founder of the VII photo agency, Alexandra Boulat has died at the age of 45 in Paris from complications of a brain aneurysm. She has previously spoken at the Frontline club, This summer, as factional fighting between Fatah and Hamas militants came to a boil inside the Gaza Strip, Alexandra was uncharacteristically absent. […]
Eve-Ann Prentice dies
From the Herts Advertiser, Author and journalist Eve-Ann Prentice died this week aged 55 after a four-year battle with cancer. Eve-Ann, who has a house in Albert Street, St Albans, lived in the city until her marriage to Irishman Aidan Morrin more than a year ago. She then moved to live in Drogheda with her […]