Kurt Schork

Kurt Schork (1947 – May 24, 2000) was an American reporter and war correspondent.

He was killed in an ambush while on assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone together with cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Spain, who worked for Associated Press Television. Two other Reuters journalists, South African cameraman Mark Chisholm and Greek photographer Yannis Behrakis, were injured in the attack.

Kurt Schork was born in Washington, D.C., in 1947, graduated from Jamestown College in 1969, and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar later that year—the same time as future president Bill Clinton. He worked as a property developer, a political adviser and as chief of staff for the New York Mass Transit Authority, before becoming a journalist.

Kurt Schork covered numerous conflicts and wars, including in the Balkans, Iraq, Chechnya, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sri Lanka, and East Timor.

He filed the story Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo, about a couple killed during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Mr. Schork has been memorialized posthumously in the dedication of Kurt Schork Street in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the dedication of the Kurt Schork newsroom at Jamestown College, his alma mater.

External links

* [http://www.ksmemorial.com/ Kurt Schork Memorial]
* [http://www.ksmemorial.com/romeo.htm Kurt Schork’s signature dispatch from siege of Sarajevo]
* [http://www.iwpr.net/kurtschork.html The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism]
* [http://www.ksmemorial.com/street.htm Road to "Sniper Alley" in Sarajevo named for Reuters reporter]
* [http://www.cpj.org/attacks00/africa00/Sierra.html Sierra Leone dangerous for journalists]
* [http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/10499 Original report on Schork's death] - IFEX

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