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Kimberly Dozier //AP Correspondent
Kimberly Dozier joined the Associated Press as a correspondent, covering intelligence and counterterrorism in spring 2010.
Before that, she was a CBS News correspondent, covering the White House and the Pentagon for CBS News' Washington bureau from 2007 to 2010. She worked primarily in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, spending most time of her in Baghdad from her home bureau in Jerusalem. In her fourteen-year-career as a foreign correspondent, she covered the Middle East extensively for the CBS Evening News, CBS's Sunday Morning, The Early Show and CBS Radio News, as well as The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Monitor Radio, the Voice of America and the BBC World Service.
She published a memoir Breathing the Fire, Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq, in 2008, detailing her full 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 officer her team was filming--CAPT. James Alex Funkhouser, along with his Iraqi translator "Sam," and Dozier's colleagues CBS cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan.
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 2009 Sigma Delta Chi award for her coverage of troops on the home front for the CBS Evening News, 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 News radio team reporting on Afghanistan. She has also received three American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Awards–in 2000, 2001 and 2002–for her radio reports on Mideast violence, Kosovo and the Afghan war, as well as the organization's Grand Gracie Award in 2007 for her body of television work in Iraq.
And she was the first woman journalist recognized for her Iraq reporting with a Tex McCreary award from the National Medal of Honor Society.
Dozier has spoken before more than a hundred different audiences about the bombing & recovery -- including the U.S. Naval Academy, the Naval War College, the Joint Special Operations University, the FBI Academy at Quantico, the National Defense University at Ft. McNair, and her alma mater Wellesley College.