Kimberly Dozier
She has covered Iraq and the Middle East extensively for the CBS Evening News, CBS’s Sunday Morning, The Early Show and CBS Radio News. Last year, she published a memoir “Breathing the Fire, Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq”, detailing her recovery from the car bomb that hit her team while covering a 4th ID patrol in Baghdad in May 2006.
That bombing killed the U.S. Army captain her team was filming–James Alex Funkhouser, along with his Iraqi translator Sam, and Dozier’s colleagues CBS cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan.
Prior to her Baghdad network appointment, Dozier was a CBS News correspondent based in Jerusalem, where she covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the war in Iraq.
Dozier served before that as a contributor to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and The Early Show in London, along with her “day jobs” working for CBS Radio News and anchoring for BBC World Service Radio.
Her assignments for television and radio have spanned several continents — from Iraq under Saddam to the invasion of Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora, to the the Kosovo refugee exodus, to Vladimir Putin’s election, to the downing of the US spy plane in China and the violence of Northern Ireland’s not-so-peaceful peace process.
Dozier has received multiple awards including a 2008 Peabody Award and the 2008 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award for a CBS News Sunday Morning report on two women veterans who lost limbs in Iraq. She received another Murrow Award in 2002 as part of the CBS team reporting on Afghanistan. She received a 2009 Sigma Delta Chi award for her coverage on the CBS Evening News of the troops on the home front.
And she was the first woman journalist recognized for her reporting with a Tex McCreary award from the National Medal of Honor Society.
