Elizabeth Neuffer (1956–2003)

Elizabeth Neuffer was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and grew up in Connecticut. She graduated from Cornell University in 1978 and earned a master's in political philosophy from the London School of Economics. She began her career with The Boston Globe in the London bureau, covering the break-up of the Soviet Union and the 1991 Gulf War, which she reported from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. At the paper's Washington bureau, she covered Capitol Hill and the Clinton Administration’s efforts to reform health care. She served as the Globe's Berlin-based European Bureau Chief from 1994 to 1998. During that time, she covered the war in the former Yugoslavia and was present at the 1994 Sarajevo marketplace massacre. In addition to general coverage of the European continent, she reported on civil unrest in Albania, violence in Kosovo, and went to Africa to report on the 1996 return of Hutu refugees from Zaire to their native Rwanda. Elizabeth was the first reporter to reveal that indicted war criminals remained in power in post-war Bosnia. Her reporting on war crimes in Bosnia and Rwanda earned her several honors, including the 1997 Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Award for Excellence in International Journalism; a 1998 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation; and an Edward R. Murrow Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations. She also was subjected to death threats, briefly abducted, and robbed. Elizabeth was the author of The Key to My Neighbor’s House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, published in 2001. In 2003, she was killed in a car accident near Samarra, a town in northern Iraq, while on assignment as the leader reporter of a Globe team covering the aftermath of the U.S. invasion.