Washington Post
War correspondent
Salih Saif Aldin didn't do it because he was foolhardy, says a Post editorial, but because, as he once told a colleague, "what's life, really, if we don't leave something good behind us?" Saif Aldin, who was shot to death in Baghdad, "did leave something good behind. His tireless and fearless reporting made it possible for the Post to publish groundbreaking reports on such subjects as corruption and human rights abuses in Tikrit and the continuing sectarian bloodshed in Baghdad."
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Three Iraqi newspaper staffers killed when their truck is ambushed (WP)
