![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She spent part of her childhood in London, where her father worked as an executive for Monsanto. Garrels was active in journalism-related organizations, and global affairs causes, and wrote two noted books - one about the Soviet Union, and one about the Iraq war and its aftermath, both recounting her own experiences, as well as providing detailed historical coverage of those places in that time.Īnne Longworth Garrels was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 2, 1951, the daughter of Valerie (Smith) and John C. ![]() In 1988, Garrels began her 22-year career as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), closely covering conflicts and other major events throughout the world, earning numerous media awards, most famously for covering the 2003 Iraq War and its aftermath - at one point the only American broadcast journalist in Iraq's war-torn capital. She later became NBC's reporter at the U.S. She became a war correspondent for ABC, covering Central American conflicts. In the mid-1970s, when she worked for ABC (including as producer), Garrels was one of the few women national broadcast journalists in the United States - eventually serving as ABC's Moscow Bureau Chief in the Soviet Union, until expelled for her detailed, unflattering reporting on the country and its issues. Anne Longworth Garrels (J– September 7, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, as well as for ABC and NBC, and other media. ![]()
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