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NPR photojournalist David Gilkey, in remembrance ⁠10%

By NPR Staff⁠0%

6/5/2026, 9:02:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Halo Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 31% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 393 faulty-reasoning hits from 216 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 27.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠10% (18,430 of 20,368 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.50% of the article peer group.

Ten years ago today, NPR journalists David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed while on assignment with an NPR team in Afghanistan. 
They were traveling with the Afghan National Army when their convoy was ambushed — not random victims, but targeted by attackers who had been tipped off to the presence of Americans in Afghanistan's Helmand province. 
They are the only NPR journalists who have ever been killed in the line of duty. 
David joined NPR in 2007. 
He covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and an Ebola epidemic in Liberia. 
He spent time with refugees of Syria's civil war in Toledo, Ohio, and captured the stories of schoolchildren in Kabul. 
He felt especially close to U.S. servicemen and women who he covered on battlefields overseas and followed their stories when they returned home. 
He took every opportunity to highlight the sacrifices they made in the face of grave danger. 
David was 50, and Zabihullah, who had worked for years as a photographer before serving as NPR's interpreter in Afghanistan, was 38. 
What follows is a series of remembrances published in the years since David and Zabihullah's deaths, as well as a selection of some of David's remarkable work during his time at NPR. 
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