khalid w. hassan
23 years old
shot

sympathy given as a recently-aged 24 year old former journalist who once aspired to become a war correspondent; who obsessed with its history while studying at oxford; and who analyzed hundreds of articles on the unfolding events in iraq for her research in d.c.

little of which would have been possible or tangible without reporters on the front line, providing the information that gave flesh to the bare bone facts.

source: new york times journalist killed baghdad