In this Video Memoir interview, Kathy Gannon, Special Regional Correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Associated Press, speaks about her career as a journalist. She was working with Pulitzer-prize winning AP photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus when they were shot in Afghanistan while covering the upcoming elections. Anja Niedringhaus was killed and Kathy Gannon was seriously wounded.
Kathy Gannon is the author of I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror; 18 Years Inside Afghanistan. She is interviewed by Ellen Nimmons, Assistant International Editor for the Associated Press.
Gannon will perform the memorial candle lighting at the OPC’s Annual Awards Dinner this year.
Watch the full interview below or check out the whole Video Memoir series on our YouTube channel.