Time Magazine Reporter & Photographer Injured In Iraq By Grenade

Yahoo News & Fox News Alert | 12-11-03

[WestCoastGal]

2 Time Magazine Journalists Hurt in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior reporter and a veteran photographer for Time magazine were wounded along with two U.S. soldiers when a grenade was tossed into their Humvee, the military and the magazine said Thursday.

Time senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf and contributing photographer James Nachtwey were traveling with a U.S. Army patrol in Baghdad on Wednesday night when the attack occurred, a statement from Time managing editor Jim Kelley said.

A military spokesman said they were with a unit of the Army's 1st Armored Division.

The military official, who spoke only condition of anonymity, said one of the journalists was severely wounded and the other was slightly injured. Time said both were in stable condition and were awaiting transfer to a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

Nachtwey is an award-winning photographer known for haunting images of war and poverty. He was the subject of a 2001 Oscar-nominated documentary, "War Photographer," and has won many awards. This year he shared a $1 million Dan David prize for documenting "the apocalyptic events of our time."

Weisskopf is an award-winning correspondent based in Washington. He covers national politics and investigations and was a finalist in the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

The Paris-based World Association of Newspapers has said that at least 16 journalists have been killed in Iraq (news - web sites) this year. Many others have been wounded.

In the last known incident, police said the editor of an independent newspaper in the northern city of Mosul was shot and killed on Oct. 28.

[MediaMole]

It is only a matter of time before James Nachtwey is killed in a war zone. He has been going into every war zone imaginable for years.

I highly recommend the movie "War Photographer" even though you will find that his politics are on the left.

[EllaMinnow]

Short bio:

http://www.time-planner.com/planner/about_time/bios/senior_editorial_staff/michael_weisskopf.html


MICHAEL WEISSKOPF

Senior Political Correspondent, TIME

Michael Weisskopf is a senior correspondent for TIME in the magazine's Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers national politics and investigations. He covered the developments in the Monica Lewinsky story and during the 2000 election, did pieces on George W. Bush's record in Texas. He is the co-author of Truth At Any Cost, a book on the Kenneth Starr probe published in April of 2000 by HarperCollins.

In 1998, Weisskopf, along with Washington Bureau Chief Michael Duffy and Correspondent Viveca Novak, was awarded the prestigious Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting, sponsored by Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, for their portfolio of investigative stories on campaign finance abuses. (TIME shared that award with the Seattle Times.) In 1999, he and chief political correspondent Eric Pooley were given the Henry R. Luce award for "Outstanding Story" for a piece they wrote on Kenneth Starr called "How Starr Sees It."

Weisskopf joined TIME in January 1997 from The Washington Post. In his 20 years with the Post, he covered politics, the environment and the Pentagon. He was the paper's correspondent in China from 1980 to 1985 and covered the hostage crisis in Iran in 1979 and 1980. Prior to joining the Post, Weisskopf covered politics and government for The Baltimore Sun. He began his career in journalism at The Montgomery Advertiser in Montgomery, Alabama.

While at the Post, Weisskopf won the George Polk Award for national coverage and The Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. In 1996 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He is the co-author with David Maraniss of Tell Newt to Shut Up, which chronicles the rise and fall of the Gingrich revolution and was published in 1996 by Simon & Schuster's paperback division.

Weisskopf received his Master of Arts from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and his Bachelors degree from George Washington University. He is fluent in Chinese.

He lives in the District of Columbia with his wife Judith, their two children, Skyler and Olivia, two dogs and three cats.

(December 2000)


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[Howlin]

Yes, they would.

[EllaMinnow]

[McGavin999]

Prayers for their recovery. I have to fight with myself to keep from saying anything further.

[cyncooper]

Found it.

Thanks for the bio info.

[WestCoastGal]

" I highly recommend the movie "War Photographer" even though you will find that his politics are on the left."

That's for sure, I was just looking up some information on him, he's been in the middle of a lot of stories (I should say, far far left of the middle of a lot of stories).

[Howlin]

Everybody already said it on the other thread. :-)

[cyncooper]

...some would call this poetic justice.

Charming.

/s

[Flux Capacitor]

I'm a charming guy.

-Dan

[cyncooper]

I can see.

I've always liked Weisskopf. Hope they both fully recover.

[Flux Capacitor]

I dunno.... losing a limb or two might teach him something. :)

-Dan

[EllaMinnow]

Teach him what?

[Flux Capacitor]

Yeah, I guess you're right. Some folks can't be taught. :)

(Boy, I can't please anyone today....)

-Dan

[Cicero]

Well, I hope they get better. Meanwhile some other Times staffers will have to write the hit piece on Bush and our military that they were no doubt working on.

[Diverdogz]

Just saw on the news where Michael Weisskopf and a photographer riding in a Humvee when a grenade landed between the two. Weisskopf purportedly picked it up and was tossing it out of the vehicle when it exploded, blowing off his hand.

[mewzilla]

Weisskopf purportedly picked it up and was tossing it out of the vehicle when it exploded, blowing off his hand.

If true, that took guts and quick reflexes. Hope they're going to be okay.

[Diverdogz]

He may have saved the lives of the others in the vehicle. Since he's a journalist, I expect we'll be hearing a whole lot more about this.