Kimberly Dozier (born July 6, 1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States) is a reporter and correspondent for CBS News, who holds both American and British citizenship. She has a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College (1987) and a master’s degree from the University of Virginia (1993). She was stationed in Baghdad as the chief reporter in Iraq for CBS News for nearly three years prior to being critically wounded on May 29, 2006.Prior to that, she was the chief correspondent for WCBS-TV New York’s Middle East bureau in Jerusalem (February 2002-August 2003), from where she covered the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq.
Before that, Dozier served as the London bureau chief and chief European correspondent for CBS Radio News, as well as a reporter for CBS News television (1996-2002). Her assignments included the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the crisis and refugee exodus in the Balkans, Vladimir Putin’s election, the death of Princess Diana, Northern Ireland’s peace process and the Khobar barracks bombing in Dhahran. Dozier has interviewed dozens of newsmakers, including Gerry Adams and Yassir Arafat. In addition to her work for CBS Radio News, she also reported for the CBS Evening News, CBS Evening News weekend editions, The Early Show and , the Network’s 24-hour news service.
Dozier was an anchor for BBC Radio World Service’s “World Update” (1996-98), an hour-long, live foreign affairs broadcast, among other programs.
While living in Cairo (1992-95), Dozier did freelance work for CBS Radio News, Christian Science Monitor Radio and Voice of America and wrote for the Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle. She served as a Washington, D.C.-based reporter for The Energy Daily, New Technology Week and Environment Week, covering Congressional policy and industry regulation (1988-91).
Dozier is the recipient of three American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Awards ” in 2000, 2001 and 2002 ” for her radio reports on Mideast violence, Kosovo and the Afghan war.
May 29, 2006 Iraq car bomb explosion
Dozier was seriously injured in Iraq on May 29, 2006 in a car bomb attack that killed an American soldier, an Iraqi translator, and CBS crewmembers Paul Douglas (her cameraman) and James Brolan (her sound technician). She has been transfered to Germany for further treatment. While she is “awake and alert”, this does not mean that her recovery is guaranteed or will be complete. News reports Friday say that she will flown back to the United States this weekend.
She has undergone two surgeries since the bombing on Monday. Doctors have removed shrapnel from her head, but say the worst injuries are to her lower body. Dozier is currently being treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, which is the U.S. military’s largest overseas hospital. Though she was unable to speak due to a respirator, she was able to write to communicate; the first question she asked was about her crew. On Thursday June 1, 2006 broadcast of CBS Evening News, her parents said on the air that she appeared very troubled when told that they had died. Her parents also said that doctors had mentioned that She would probably need metal rods placed in her legs. CBS show pictures of two flag draped coffins holding the bodies of the two dead CBS journalists back to England and broadcasted reactions of their friends there. According to CBS, all three journalists were riding in an armored humvee and are believed to have been wearing protective gear. CBS news attributes Kimberly’s survival so far to her wearing such protection Monday. The same broadcast mentioned that a wounded American soldier who had been interviewed by Kimberly had come by to give his purple heart to her, because he felt that she was as much a part of the effort in Iraq as he was.
On Friday June 2, 2006 WCBS-TV reported that she is now able to breathe on her own [5] without the aid of a respirator.
Coincidentally, in April 2004, Dozier had been featured in a USA Today article on the safety of journalists covering the Iraq War. On the CBS Evening News the day of the event, Bob Schieffer reported that the news crew was working on a story of which the subject was how Memorial Day “is like any other day” in Iraq.
Source: Kimberly Dozier . (2006, June 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 04:01, June 5, 2006.
