Elizabeth Neuffer
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Elizabeth Neuffer was an award-winning journalist who specialized in covering war crimes, human rights abuses, and post-conflict societies. She died at the age of 46 in a car accident in Iraq.
Neuffer began her career with The Boston Globe
in the Washington bureau where she covered Capitol Hill and the Clinton Administration’s plan for health care reform. She also reported from Moscow on the breakup of the Soviet Union, and from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq during the Gulf War.
She served as the European Bureau Chief from 1994 to 1998 in Berlin, Germany. During that time, she covered both the war in Bosnia and its subsequent peace, including the 1994 Sarajevo
marketplace massacre, the fall of the UN “safe haven” Srebrenica
, the arrival of American troops, and elections in postwar Bosnia. In addition to general coverage of the European continent – from the rise of the far-right in France to economic turmoil in Romania – she reported on civil unrest in Albania, violence in Kosovo, and was dispatched to Africa to report on the 1996 return of Hutu refugees from Zaire to their native Rwanda.
The first reporter to reveal that indicted war criminals remained in power in post-war Bosnia, Neuffer dedicated almost a year to exclusively reporting about war crimes in Bosnia and Rwanda. That reporting earned her several awards, including the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Award for Excellence in International Journalism. She was also awarded the Edward R. Murrow Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations
in New York City, where she worked on a project about war crimes while on leave from The Boston Globe.
In 1998 Neuffer won a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).
She was the author of The Key to My Neighbor’s House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, published by Picador in 2001.
On May 9, 2003, she was killed in a car accident in Iraq while on assignment there covering the aftermath of the war.
Neuffer began her career with The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
in the Washington bureau where she covered Capitol Hill and the Clinton Administration’s plan for health care reform. She also reported from Moscow on the breakup of the Soviet Union, and from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq during the Gulf War.
She served as the European Bureau Chief from 1994 to 1998 in Berlin, Germany. During that time, she covered both the war in Bosnia and its subsequent peace, including the 1994 Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
marketplace massacre, the fall of the UN “safe haven” Srebrenica
Srebrenica
Srebrenica is a town and municipality in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Bosnian Serb entity of Republika Srpska. Srebrenica is a small mountain town, its main industry being salt mining and a nearby spa. During the Bosnian War, the town was the site of the July 1995 massacre,...
, the arrival of American troops, and elections in postwar Bosnia. In addition to general coverage of the European continent – from the rise of the far-right in France to economic turmoil in Romania – she reported on civil unrest in Albania, violence in Kosovo, and was dispatched to Africa to report on the 1996 return of Hutu refugees from Zaire to their native Rwanda.
The first reporter to reveal that indicted war criminals remained in power in post-war Bosnia, Neuffer dedicated almost a year to exclusively reporting about war crimes in Bosnia and Rwanda. That reporting earned her several awards, including the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Award for Excellence in International Journalism. She was also awarded the Edward R. Murrow Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
in New York City, where she worked on a project about war crimes while on leave from The Boston Globe.
In 1998 Neuffer won a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).
She was the author of The Key to My Neighbor’s House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, published by Picador in 2001.
On May 9, 2003, she was killed in a car accident in Iraq while on assignment there covering the aftermath of the war.
External links
- The Boston Globe.http://www.boston.com/news/daily/09/neuffer.htm
- Neuffer, Elizabeth. The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda on Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Key-My-Neighbors-House-Seeking/dp/0312302827
- International Women's Media Foundation. http://www.iwmf.org/subcatdetail.aspx?sc=neufferbio