Gina Cavallaro

Gina Cavallaro

Gina Cavallaro is a reporter for Army Times, which is owned by Gannett Company. She joined the Army Times as a deputy news editor in 2001 and became a full-time staff writer in 2002. Cavallaro’s career in journalism began in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with WOSO, the island’s only English-language radio station. She then became a reporter and editor at the English-language daily newspaper, The San Juan Star.

At Army Times she has covered military operations in Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Germany and dozens of Army posts in the United States. Cavallaro has also embedded with the military and has gone to Iraq seven times and also to Afghanistan. In 2005, Cavallaro befriended 20-year-old Spc. Francisco Martinez in Iraq, and later witnessed him being shot and killed on patrol.

External links

* [http://www.militaryreporters.org/mre_bios.html Biography web site for military reporters]

* [http://www.militarycity.com/valor/739275.html Gina Cavallaro writes about losing her friend, Spc. Francisco Martinez]


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