Remembering Elizabeth Neuffer Story aired: Monday, May 12, 2003
"Devastated" was the term used to describe Boston Globe staffers when they learned this past Friday that their colleague, award-winning reporter Elizabeth Neuffer, had been killed in a car accident in Iraq.
All journalists felt a pang. NPR's Tom Gjelten once said that no reporter came close to Elizabeth's reporting on the genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda.
At Here and Now, we depended on Elizabeth Neuffer's reporting from Iraq and from the United Nations.
The 46-year-old veteran journalist was killed returning to Baghdad from Tikrit on April 30th. Neuffer had reported for Here and Now from the city of Fallujah where U.S. soldiers had been fired upon.
