Elizabeth Neuffer

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Elizabeth Neuffer
Born(1956-06-15)June 15, 1956
Samarra, Iraq

Elizabeth Neuffer (June 15, 1956 – May 9, 2003) was an American journalist who specialized in covering war crimes, human rights abuses, and post-conflict societies. She died at the age of 46 in a car accident while covering the Iraq War.

Career

Neuffer began her career with

Gulf War
.

She served as the European Bureau Chief from 1994 to 1998 in

far-right in France to economic turmoil in Romania – she reported on civil unrest in Albania, violence in Kosovo, and was dispatched to Africa to report on the 1996 return of Hutu refugees from Zaire to their native Rwanda
.

The first reporter to reveal that indicted war criminals remained in power in post-war Bosnia, Neuffer dedicated almost a year to exclusively reporting about war crimes in Bosnia and Rwanda. That reporting earned her several awards, including the

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Award for Excellence in International Journalism. She was also awarded the Edward R. Murrow Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City
, where she worked on a project about war crimes while on leave from The Boston Globe.

In 1998 Neuffer won a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (

IWMF).[1]

She was the author of The Key to My Neighbor’s House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, published by Picador in 2001.[2]

Death

Plaque at National War Correspondents Memorial, Gathland State Park

On May 9, 2003, she was killed in a car accident while returning to Baghdad from an overnight trip to Tikrit where she covered the aftermath of the war.[3][4][5]



References

  1. ^ Elizabeth Neuffer 1998 Courage In Journalism Award on International Women's Media Foundation website
  2. ^ On Amazon.com
  3. ^ "Veteran Globe reporter Elizabeth Neuffer killed in car accident in Iraq", Boston Globe May 9, 2003.
  4. ^ "US reporter killed in Iraq car crash". ABC News (Australia). 10 May 2003.
  5. ^ Marin, Doglas (13 May 2003). "Elizabeth Neuffer, 46, Reporter Overseas for The Boston Globe". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 February 2023.

External links

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