with Michael Kelly on Apr 4, 2003
with Michael Kelly on Mar 28, 1995
Michael Kelly (1957-2003) was an American journalist and editor.
Kelly began his career at ?The Baltimore Sun? in 1986, and worked for three years in that newspaper’s Washington bureau, covering the Iran-Contra affair and national politics. During the 1988 presidential election, he covered the campaigns of Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis
In the spring of 1992, Kelly went to work at ?The New York Times? as a political reporter. He worked briefly as a White House correspondent, and then moved to the Times Magazine, where he worked for a year writing cover stories on Bill and Hillary Clinton, David Gergen, and life in the Gaza Strip under Yasir Arafat’s new regime.
Kelly left the Times to accept a job as the Washington editor of ?The New Yorker?, where he wrote the magazine’s regular Letter From Washington, covered the Bosnian conflict as a foreign correspondent through the summer of 1995, and filed campaign-trail dispatches on the 1996 presidential race. He left ?The New Yorker? in the fall of 1996 to become editor of ?The New Republic?.
In 2002 he became editor at large of ?The Atlantic?. In 2003, while on assignment in Iraq, he became the first American reporter killed during the conflict.
