Michael Hastings

Michael Hastings (1980–2013) spent two years reporting on Iraq and worked for Newsweek starting in 2002. He also filed stories from Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, Kurdistan, and Vietnam. He has been published in Slate, Salon, and Foreign Policy, as well as Newsweek International, for which he wrote four cover stories. He won the 2010 George Polk Award for magazine reporting, and at the time of his death, he was writing about politics for the news Web site BuzzFeed.