James Brolan (7 April 1964 – 29 May 2006) was a British freelance journalist and television sound technician, who was killed while working for CBS News in Baghdad, Iraq.
The team included producer Andy Clarke, reporter Richard Roth, camera operator Nick Turner, and Brolan as sound technician.
[15] Camera operator Paul Douglas, Brolan, and an Iraqi translator named "Sam",[16] were with Captain James "Alex" Funkhouser of the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division, with whom they were embedded,[1][10] when a car bomb was detonated by a remote phone call.
The CBS news team was supposed to be covering a "Memorial Day" story about how troops were spending their holiday, but the embed host made a stop at checkpoint in the Karrada district of Baghdad.
[21] The Rory Peck Foundation raised £8,000 in a 2011 cricket game challenging CBS in honor of fallen journalists Paul Douglas and James Brolan.