Those same qualities that made Anne Garrels a great reporter, said Reeves, also made her a great friend who will be sorely missed. So, when you were sitting next to her when she was doing that, you often saw a whole story unfold that you didn't realize was there, because Annie's imagining what it's like to be them," he said. She would sit down with people and really talk through what had happened to them. And that, in this day and age it's unusual, she gave them time. "I think at heart she loved people, actually. And, Reeves said, it wasn't just her bravery that set Garrels' reporting apart from the rest of the pack. It's not that Garrels wasn't afraid, said her friend Phillip Reeves - it's just that her need to tell a story sometimes drove her to take risks that others wouldn't. "The piece was beautiful, and no one - of course, except for all of her colleagues - knew what it took for her to do that." And so Annie rolled in a carpet in the back seat of a car, through the worst neighborhoods, so that she would not be visible," Amos said. "This was at the height of the killing and it was terrible in Baghdad, and frightening. Once, she had wanted to do a piece about cemetery workers in Najaf. World Millions of Muslims Rest in Najaf's Valley of Peace She was the kind of reporter who would drive alone across a war zone if that's what it took to get the story. And when it came to covering a war, she was there at the beginning, in the middle of the battle, and at the peace table. That bravery led Garrels into many war zones. She was always braver than me, and I always understood that she was braver than me." And she'd has this long and remarkable career before she landed here. NPR Music also links listeners to great live streams from NPR Member. "She didn't dress like the rest of us in the beginning. NPR Music curates the All Songs Considered 24-7 stream, the Alt.Latino Radio stream and the I'll Take You There R&B stream. "She was this glamorous television reporter who came here," she said. Garrels made a strong impression on NPR's Deborah Amos. When she arrived at NPR in 1988, she already had a lot of experience under her belt - including 10 years in television news at ABC, where she was bureau chief in both Moscow and Central America. She was also a warm and generous friend to many. She was 71 years old.Īt NPR, Garrels was known as a passionate reporter willing to go anywhere in the world at a moment's notice if the story required it. Anne Garrels, longtime foreign correspondent for NPR, died on Wednesday of lung cancer.
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