Kathy M. Gannon is a Canadian journalist and news director of the Associated Press for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Gannon has received extensive coverage as she struggled to recover from her wounds and return to war reporting.Now Senior Fellow, media centre at Harvard Kennedy School.
[2] She was the 2015 recipient of the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
[7] Prior to being attacked in 2014, Gannon had spent 18 years reporting from Afghanistan and was the Associated Press's regional chief.
[2] When the vehicles were stopped, one of the commanders, named Naqibullah, of the police contingent took his rifle, yelled "Allahu Akbar!