I work with journalist everyday in environments less than secure. While I don’t always agree with the coverage they provide or their interpretation of events, their bravery in the face of danger to pursue what they find to be the truth is something I always find inspiring. Conflict journalist and PAO Soldiers have different purposes but similar aims and for that reason I’ll take a moment out of my day, just as I do for fallen comrades, to remember Daniel Pearl. I didn’t know Pearl personally but I’ve known many like him and despite occasional differences and friendly irritations their purpose and mine are intertwined. As different as our jobs are, we are brought together in common purpose and willing to lay our lives on the line in our respective pursuits. R.I.P. Daniel Pearl and the many like him around the world. If you have a moment, visit the Newseum’s Journalist Memorial Wall in honor of those that sought to tell the story of conflict and died in their purpose. 

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This week marks the ten year anniversary of the death of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal’s correspondent in South Asia, who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002. 

Read through the Wall Street Journal’s commemorative round-up of articles here. (Hat tip to Capital New York’s tumblr).

Here is an archived selection of some of Pearl’s front page stories.

And here are resources and information links about Daniel Pearl’s story and background via the South Asian Journalists Association.