Iraqi New York Times journalist killed

by mtippett | July 13, 2007 at 03:54 pm

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With all the discussion that goes into bashing mainstream media and the news business it's easy to forget that some reporters are literally risking their lives to get a story out. Sometimes - tragically - that risk is realized.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed an Iraqi journalist from The New York Times as he drove to work Friday, the third staffer of a Western news organization to be killed in the past two days. In his last moments, Khalid W. Hassan called his mother on his cell phone and told her he had been shot.

Hassan, 23, was the second Times employee killed in the Iraq conflict, in which 110 journalists and 40 media support staffers have been killed since the 2003 U.S. invasion, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.