Margaret Moth

Margaret Gipsy Moth (August 21, 1951– March 21, 2010) was a New Zealand-born photojournalist who worked for CNN in the US.

One early assignment was covering the 1990 Gulf War; for the next 20 years, Moth would take her camera to the world’s hot spots, including Lebanon, Zaire, Somali and Chechnya.

In 2002, working with CNN presenter Stefan Kotsonis, she covered a large Israeli raid on the West Bank.

When IDF troops completely surrounded Yasser Arafat's compound, Moth filmed a group of doctors protesting a curfew who walked towards the soldiers.

[2] In 1992, Moth won a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.

[2] Moth is the subject of a documentary feature-length film co-written and directed by New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless, titled Never Look Away, which had its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section of the 40th Sundance Film Festival in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, in January 2024.