David Bloom, an NBC News correspondent embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died Sunday, NBC announced. Bloom, a 39-year-old husband and father of three, died of an apparent pulmonary embolism, the company said. He was the second American journalist to die in Iraq since the war began.
In his most recent assignment — traveling with the 2nd Battalion, 315 Mechanized Unit of U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division in its push toward Baghdad — Bloom scored what many believe to be a first: broadcasting live reports as the American armored column he was traveling with fought its way north through the Iraqi desert.
Howard Kurtz, the media critic of The Washington Post, noted Bloom’s coverage for its “boyish enthusiasm.”
“Bloom is seen zipping through the desert so often that he’s become Iraq’s unofficial travel guide,” Kurtz wrote in a March 25 review of war coverage.
Kristi told me on Friday that Bloom was her favorite correspondent. I knew Michael Kelly's work better than Bloom's, but he too seems like someone whose potential was barely tapped.
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