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'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, studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar at the same time as 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.

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★ Kurt Schork Memorial

★ Kurt Schork’s signature dispatch from siege of Sarajevo

★ The Kurt Schork Awards in Internatuional Journalism

★ Road to "Sniper Alley" in Sarajevo named for Reuters reporter

★ Sierra Leone dangerous for journalists

★ Original report on Schork's death - IFEX