This kid was 19 when he started. A mere baby…….

A New York Times reporter was shot and killed today while working in Baghdad, just 24 hours after two Reuters staff were killed in the city.
Khalid Hassan, 23, was one of the longest’serving local journalists for the New York Times’ Baghdad bureau, working as a reporter and translator since 2003. He was of Palestinian descent.

Yesterday, Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh were killed by gunfire as they covered a clash between insurgents and the US military in eastern Baghdad.

Hassan was shot while driving to work this morning in the Seiydia district of the capital. In a phone call to his office, Hassan reported that a security checkpoint had been set up on his route to work and that he would find an alternative route.

Hassan later called his mother and said he had been shot, although the details of the incident are not known.

More at the Guardian