Newseum -- Special -- Journalists Memorial Ceremony (2015) w/Kathy Gannon:
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Description of Pictures: Each year, the Newseum rededicates its Journalists Memorial in recognition of the dangers in the profession of journalism and those who have died in pursuit of news and information. This year’s ceremony recognizes 14 journalists who represent those who died in 2014.
Kathy Gannon is an award-winning Associated Press correspondent who has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for nearly 30 years. While covering the 2014 elections in Afghanistan, she was severely wounded when a policeman opened fire, killing her colleague, photographer Anja Niedringhaus.
Program:
* Introduction, Gene Policinski, chief operating officer, Newseum Institute
* Welcome: Peter S. Prichard, chairman and chief executive officer, Newseum
* Remarks by Family Members (including Steven Sotloff's parents, James Foley's dad, and Michel Du Cille's friend Carol Guzy)
* Keynote Speaker: Kathy Gannon, correspondent, The Associated Press
* Journalists Memorial Rededication: Journalists Memorial Committee members John Powell, Indira Williams Babic, Rick Mastroianni, Ann Rauscher, and Patty Rhule
* Closing Remarks: Gene Policinski
Fallen Journalists Recognized at Newseum:
In an emotional rededication ceremony held in the Newseum’s Journalists Memorial Gallery June 8, the names of 14 journalists — including photojournalist James Foley and freelance journalist Steven Sotloff, who were beheaded by ISIS militants in Syria — were added to the Newseum’s Journalists Memorial.
The journalists, 11 men and three women, represent the more than 80 journalists who died while covering the news in 2014.
“It is right, and just, that we pause today in our busy lives to remember what these journalists did, and why they did it,” Peter Prichard, chief executive officer of the Newseum, said in his opening remarks.
Gene Policinski, chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of the Newseum’s First Amendment Center, acknowledged the journalists’ sacrifices and their lasting pl ...More...
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JMEM1_150608_005.JPG: Peter S. Prichard, chairman and chief executive officer, Newseum
JMEM1_150608_039.JPG: Vietnam War veteran
JMEM1_150608_063.JPG: Gene Policinski
JMEM1_150608_075.JPG: Steven Sotloff's parents, Shirley and Arthur
JMEM1_150608_126.JPG: James Foley's father, John
JMEM1_150608_168.JPG: Carol Guzy
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Carol Guzy (born March 7, 1956) is an American news photographer for The Washington Post. She has won the Pulitzer Prize four times -- one of four people to do so, and the only journalist with that achievement.
JMEM1_150608_226.JPG: Nikki Kahn hugging Carol Guzy
JMEM1_150608_262.JPG: Kathy Gannon
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Kathy Gannon is a journalist for the Associated Press, who was attacked and wounded while reporting from Afghanistan. Her colleague, Anja Niedringhaus, was mortally wounded. Gannon has received extensive coverage as she struggled to recover from her wounds and return to war reporting.
Gannon was born in Timmins, Ontario. In 2002 she won the International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism award. In 2003 she was awarded a Edward R. Murrow fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations
Gannon is the author of "I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror in Afghanistan".
Gannon had spent 18 years, reporting from Afghanistan prior to her attack, and was the Associated Press's regional chief.
Gannon and Niedringhaus were in a convoy of journalists, reporting on the national elections, protected by elements of the Afghan army and Afghan Police. When the vehicles were stopped, one of the commanders, named Naqibullah, of the police contingent took his rifle, yelled "God is Great!", and fired into their vehicle at close range. He then sat down and surrendered to his colleagues.
JMEM1_150608_311.JPG: John Powell
JMEM1_150608_333.JPG: Indira Williams Babic
JMEM1_150608_347.JPG: Rick Mastroianni
JMEM1_150608_354.JPG: Patty Rhule (Newseum director of exhibits)
JMEM1_150608_389.JPG: Gene Policinski
JMEM2_150608_001.JPG: Ashlie Hampton and her son
JMEM2_150608_012.JPG: Michel du Cille
The Washington Post
in Liberia
James Foley
Freelance
in Syria
JMEM2_150608_030.JPG: Carrie Christoffersen (Curator/Director of Collections at Newseum) and Scott Williams
JMEM2_150608_047.JPG: Stories of Sacrifice
2014
Journalism can be a dangerous profession. The Journalists Memorial lists the names of men and women who were killed covering wars or other dangerous assignments, or who were murdered to silence their work. The 14 journalists recognized here represent all journalists who died while reporting the news in 2014. The photos at the top of this wall depict journalists from previous years whose names are listed on the glass panels at left.
JMEM2_150608_049.JPG: Yusuf Ahmed Abukar
Organization: Radio Ergo and Mustaqbal Radio
Year: 2014
Country: Somalia
Bio:
Radio journalist Yusuf Ahmed Abukar was driving to work when a bomb planted under the seat of his car exploded, killing him instantly. An outspoken critic of the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabab and the Somali government, Abukar, who was 27, had received anonymous death threats on his cellphone in the weeks before his murder. In 2013, he won the U.N.-sponsored Somali Media Award in recognition of his reporting on humanitarian issues. Somalia is Africa's deadliest country for journalists and has one of the world's worst records for prosecuting their killers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
JMEM2_150608_052.JPG: Muftah Bu Zeid
Organization: Brnieq
Year: 2014
Country: Libya
Bio:
Threatened with death if he did not leave the country in 24 hours, Libyan newspaper editor Muftah Bu Zeid defiantly drove through Benghazi, hand-delivering copies of his newspaper. Gunmen ambushed him in his car on a busy street, fatally shooting him in the head, stomach and hands. He was 59. Days earlier, armed men had seized a shipment of the newspaper on its way to Tripoli, the Libyan capital. An outspoken critic of Islamist extremism, Bu Zeid discussed Libya's political crisis on television the day before he was killed. Deadly attacks on journalists in Libya have risen since the 2011 uprising that ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
JMEM2_150608_054.JPG: Simone Camilli
Organization: The Associated Press
Year: 2014
Country: Israel
Bio:
Italian video journalist Simone Camilli of the Associated Press did not shy away from dangerous assignments. He covered the murderous rise of ISIS terrorists in Iraq and the refugee crisis in Syria. His passion for reporting the human toll of conflict drew him to Gaza to cover the aftermath of the war between Hamas militants and Israel. Camilli was filming Gaza police attempting to defuse an Israeli shell when the shell exploded, killing Camilli, his Palestinian translator and three police engineers. Camilli, who was 35, had worked for the AP since 2005. Gaza was one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists in 2014, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
JMEM2_150608_059.JPG: Michel du Cille
Organization: The Washington Post
Year: 2014
Country: Liberia
Bio:
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. While hiking back from a remote village, du Cille collapsed from an apparent heart attack and was transported two hours across dirt roads to a hospital, where he was declared dead. He was 58. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his powerful images, 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.
JMEM2_150608_061.JPG: James Foley
Organization: Freelance
Year: 2014
Country: Syria
Bio:
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. During his captivity in Syria, Foley was beaten and tortured, yet he shared his food and his only blanket, and invented games to raise the spirits of his fellow hostages. On Aug. 19, 2014, Foley was beheaded by ISIS militants, who posted a video of his murder online. He was 40. "He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people," his parents said.
JMEM2_150608_063.JPG: Rubylita Garcia
Organization: Remate and dwAD
Year: 2014
Country: Philippines
Bio:
Two men burst into the home of Philippine journalist Rubylita Garcia and fired multiple gunshots at her as her son and 10-year-old granddaughter watched in fear. As Garcia lay dying, she told her son that the local police chief was behind the shooting. A hard-hitting print and radio journalist with more than 20 years of experience, Garcia, who was 52, was known for exposing police corruption. Her publisher said she and the police chief had argued the day before her death. After Garcia died, her family received death threats and entered a witness protection program. The police chief was suspended. The Philippines has one of the world's worst records for prosecuting the killers of journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
JMEM2_150608_066.JPG: Nils Horner
Organization: Sveriges Radio
Year: 2014
Country: Afghanistan
Bio:
Swedish radio journalist Nils Horner was on his way to interview a man who had survived a suicide bombing at a popular restaurant in Kabul when two men shot him in the back of the head in a brazen daylight attack. When colleagues called Horner's cellphone after hearing reports of a shooting, a doctor answered and told them he was dead. Horner was 51. A seasoned foreign correspondent, he had documented the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the Iraq War in 2003 and the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. More than 20 journalists have been killed covering the war in Afghanistan since 2001, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
JMEM2_150608_069.JPG: Camille Lepage
Organization: Freelance
Year: 2014
Country: Central African Republic
Bio:
In her final post on Twitter, French photojournalist Camille Lepage said she was traveling with a Christian militia in the Central African Republic to document recent attacks by Muslim rebels. Her body was found a week later. Members of the militia said Lepage was killed in an ambush. She was 26. In 2012, just out of journalism school, Lepage moved to South Sudan, where she lived in a house with no electricity and recorded the horrors of war. She said she wanted to live in a place "where no one else wants to go" and cover in-depth stories about conflict. Sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in the Central African Republic has left thousands dead and nearly a million displaced.
JMEM2_150608_071.JPG: Irshad Mastoi
Organization: Online International News Network and ARY News
Year: 2014
War: Pakistan
Bio:
As general secretary of the Balochistan Union of Journalists, Irshad Mastoi kept a list of reporters who had been killed in Pakistan's violent Balochistan province, telling friends that one day his name might appear among them. That day came on Aug. 28, 2014, when two gunmen burst into the offices of the independent news agency Online International News Network, killing Mastoi and two colleagues, including trainee reporter Ghulam Rasool. A courageous reporter and bureau chief, Mastoi, who was 34, taught himself to type with his left hand after losing his right hand in an electrical accident while on assignment. Mastoi had received multiple death threats for his reporting in Balochistan, which Reporters Without Borders calls one of the world's most dangerous areas for journalists.
JMEM2_150608_076.JPG: Pablo Medina
Organization: ABC Color
Year: 2014
Country: Paraguay
Bio:
A reporter for Paraguay's largest independent newspaper, Pablo Medina received so many death threats for his coverage of the local drug trade that police assigned him his own bodyguard. But despite continued threats, his protection was withdrawn in 2013. Traveling through a region controlled by drug traffickers, Medina was stopped by two men who asked him to identify himself, and then shot him four times in the face and chest. Medina was 53. His 19-year-old assistant also was killed. A local mayor who was involved in drug trafficking was charged with orchestrating the murders. Thirteen years earlier, Medina's brother, a radio journalist, was killed for exposing drug traffickers in the region.
JMEM2_150608_081.JPG: Anja Niedringhaus
Organization: The Associated Press
Year: 2014
Country: Afghanistan
Bio:
Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus spent years documenting the war in Afghanistan, embedding with Afghan troops and traveling to remote regions. No stranger to violence, she had been blown out of her car by a grenade in Kosovo, hit by a sniper's bullet in Sarajevo and wounded by shrapnel in Afghanistan. In 2014, Niedringhaus and her colleague Kathy Gannon were covering preparations for Afghanistan's presidential elections when they were stopped at a security checkpoint. A police commander approached their car and opened fire with his AK-47. Niedringhaus, who was 48, died instantly. Gannon was severely wounded. In 2005, Niedringhaus was part of the team of AP photographers whose coverage of the war in Iraq won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
JMEM2_150608_083.JPG: Luke Somers
Organization: Freelance
Year: 2014
Country: Yemen
Bio:
A Navy SEAL rescue team was less than 100 yards from the compound in Yemen where American photojournalist Luke Somers was being held by al-Qaida terrorists. But a barking dog alerted his captors, sparking a fierce firefight. By the time the SEALs reached Somers and South African hostage Pierre Korkie, they were dying from gunshot wounds. Somers was 33. Kidnapped in 2013 as he left a grocery store in Yemen, Somers was last seen in a video released online by al-Qaida three days before he died. Somers went to Yemen in 2010 to teach English but stayed to document the Arab Spring uprising and its aftermath for the BBC, Al-Jazeera and The New York Times.
JMEM2_150608_085.JPG: Steven Sotloff
Organization: Freelance
Year: 2014
Country: Syria
Bio:
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. On Sept. 2, 2014, terrorists posted a video of his brutal murder online. Sotloff was 31. 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 and other publications. During his year of captivity, Sotloff hid his Jewish faith from his kidnappers but secretly practiced his religion. He smuggled two letters to his family through a former cellmate. "Everyone has two lives," Sotloff said. "The second one begins when you realize that you only have one."
JMEM2_150608_090.JPG: Vyacheslav Veremiy
Organization: Vesti
Year: 2014
Country: Ukraine
Bio:
Newspaper reporter Vyacheslav Veremiy nearly lost an eye from a stun grenade while covering protests in Kiev between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in 2014. But after a month in the hospital, he returned to cover deadly clashes between police and demonstrators in Kiev's Independence Square. Returning home in a taxi with a colleague one night, Veremiy filmed a group of armed masked men he noticed at an intersection. The men stormed the taxi, dragged Veremiy and his colleague from the car and beat them with baseball bats. Veremiy was shot in the chest and died. He was 32. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, four other journalists were killed in Ukraine in 2014 during clashes between government forces and pro-Russian separatists.
JMEM2_150608_222.JPG: ???, Nikki Kahn, and Carol Guzy
JMEM2_150608_226.JPG: Nikki Khan
JMEM2_150608_259.JPG: Carol Guzy
JMEM2_150608_276.JPG: Gene Policinski
JMEM2_150608_290.JPG: Nikki Kahn
JMEM2_150608_315.JPG: Arthur Sotloff, Steven Sotloff's father, touches his son's name
JMEM2_150608_322.JPG: Nikki Kahn touches Michel Du Cille's name
JMEM2_150608_368.JPG: Visitors noticing the journalist ashes that are buried here
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two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and
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