Remembering War Correspondent Anne Garrels

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🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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NPR international correspondent Anne Garrels died Wednesday at 71. She was known for fearless reporting in conflict zones, empathy for the victims of war, and a host of prestigious awards. We'll hear about her experiences in Iraq in 2003, chronicled in her book, Naked in Baghdad.

Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Book critic Maureen reviews If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery.

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0:00.0	This is Fresh Air.
0:01.6	I'm Dave Davies in For Terry Gross.
0:04.5	And Garels, the award-winning international correspondent who reported from conflict zones
0:09.1	around the world for NPR and 2TV networks, died Wednesday at her home in Connecticut from
0:15.0	lung cancer.
0:16.4	She was 71.
0:18.3	Garels was known as a fearless journalist who showed great empathy with the victims of
0:22.2	war, as she reported from the Soviet Union, Tiananmen Square, Bosnia, Chechnya, El Salvador,
0:28.6	Tikaragua, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
0:31.7	Her most heralded dispatches were from the war in Iraq in 2003, which earned her a George
0:37.4	Polka Award, as well as DuPont and Peabody Awards with others on the NPR reporting team.
0:44.0	Today we'll hear Terry's 2003 interview with NGarels when she'd written her first book,
0:49.1	Naked in Baghdad, about her reporting in Iraq.
0:53.1	Terry asked her why she decided to stay in Baghdad during the US shock and all bombing
0:57.6	campaign when many news organizations were pulling out.
1:01.3	Well, first of all, I don't think any of us realize so many journalists would leave.
1:06.5	There were about 500 journalists in Baghdad up until just a few days before the President
1:13.9	Bush's deadline.
1:15.6	And it wasn't really until the last minute that we turned around and looked at each other
1:18.6	and went, oh my God, there are only 16 Americans left.
1:23.0	But there was no question in my own mind that I should stay.
1:26.0	I'd been there on and off since last October.
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