Journalist/Premature death

Journalist/Premature death (Premature deaths)
Premature deaths of journalists, not necessarily suspicious

 

Assassinated journalists on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Manuel Buendía	24 May 1926	30 May 1984	Journalist
Hrant Dink	15 September 1954	January 2007	Author Journalist	Assassinated journalist
Darya Dugina	15 December 1992	20 August 2022	Journalist Activist	Russian journalist and political activist who was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow on 20 August 2022
Cats Falck	11 July 1953	18 November 1984	Journalist	Swedish journalist found dead after investigation arms trade. Lacklustre police investigation of death.
Francisco Ortiz Franco	1954	22 June 2004	Journalist	Mexican journalist assassinated within months of starting to write about drug trafficking.
Daphne Caruana Galizia	26 August 1964	16 October 2017	Journalist Blogger	The Maltese journalist and blogger who exposed the Panama Papers. Assassinated in 2017 by a car bomb
Jeff German	23 August 1953	3 September 2022	Journalist	Murdered journalist in Las Vegas
Michael Hastings	28 January 1980	18 June 2013	Journalist	American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone and reporter for BuzzFeed.
Bill Hunter	2 November 1928	23 April 1964	Journalist JFK/Assassination/Premature death	A reported who investigated the JFK assassination. Shot dead by a policeman, reportedly accidentally.
Jamal Khashoggi	13 October 1958	2 October 2018	Author Journalist Editor	assassinated journalist
Dorothy Kilgallen	3 July 1913	8 November 1965	Journalist Celebrity JFK/Assassination/Premature death	A famous journalist who became interested in the JFK assassination and who died in highly suspicious circumstances of a drug overdose
Paul Klebnikov	3 June 1963	9 July 2004	Journalist Historian Editor	US journalist who was shot dead for his reporting in Russia.
Otakhon Latifi	18 March 1936	22 September 1998	Journalist Politician	Tajik Peace making politician. Assassinated in 1998
Walter Liggett	14 February 1886	9 December 1935	Journalist Editor	Assassinated American journalist
Uğur Mumcu	22 August 1942	24 January 1993	Journalist	Turkish journalist who "messed with the beehives" and was assassinated by (not mutually exclusive) the CIA, the [Turkey/Deep state
Anson Ng		July 1991	Journalist	A British reporter for the Financial Times who, similarly to Danny Casolaro was found dead in his bathtub after investigating the BCCI.
Anna Politkovskaya	30 August 1958	7 October 2006	Author Journalist Activist Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	A staunch opponent of the Second Chechen War who was assassinated.
Walther Rathenau	29 September 1867	24 June 1922	Journalist Politician Industrialist	German Foreign Minister assassinated in office after signing the Treaty of Rapallo with the USSR.
Arshad Sharif	22 February 1973	23 October 2022	Journalist News presenter	Pakistani journalist who supported Imran Khan, shot dead in October 2022
Yuri Shchekochikhin	9 June 1950	3 July 2003	Author Journalist Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	A member of the ill-fated Kovalev Commission who was assassinated.
Peter R. de Vries	14 November 1956	15 July 2021	Whistleblower Soldier Journalist Handler	A Dutch former army sergeant turned journalist, controversial as friend and associate of leading Dutch gatekeepers on conspiracy theories, criminal lawyers and criminals, including Klaas Bruinsma. Uncovered dozens of cases of corruptions or cover ups by criminals and the government, including on Mabel van Oranje and revealing Inlichtingen en Operatiën. Shot dead in 2021.

 

Murdered journalists on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Jill Dando	9 November 1961	26 April 1999	Journalist Television presenter News presenter	A high profile BBC TV presenter shot dead in front of her house.
Jeff German	23 August 1953	3 September 2022	Journalist	Murdered journalist in Las Vegas
Viktoria Marinova	19 August 1988	6 October 2018	Journalist	Marinova was an investigative journalist. After an interesting segment on alleged fraud with EU funds by businessmen and politicians - promising to uncover more about those individuals next week - Marinova was murdered in the most popular place for joggers in the city of Ruse. Although deemed a rape and murder, some of her belongings have never been found.
Mary Pinchot Meyer	14 October 1920	12 October 1964	Journalist Artist JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Wife of Cord Meyer, lover of JFK, murdered in 1964.
Jonathan Moyle		March 1990	Journalist Pilot	28-year-old editor of the magazine 'Defence Helicopter World' when he was found dead in a Santiago Hotel in March, 1990
Amiram Nir	8 December 1950	30 November 1988	Spook Journalist Deep state actor	Mossad Iran Contra figure who was murdered in 1988 and whose documents were subsequently mopped up by unidentified spooks.
Mino Pecorelli	14 September 1928	20 March 1979	Journalist	"Maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts" shot dead in Rome a year after former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro's 1978 kidnapping and subsequent killing.
Brian Downing Quig	1945	16 June 2003	Researcher Whistleblower Journalist	Deep politics researcher who publicised CIA drug trafficking. Fatal hit by a car in 2003.

 

Other prematurely deceased journalists on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Leonard Beaton	20 June 1929	9 June 1971	Journalist	Died aged 41, three years after attending the 1968 Bilderberg. His book, The Reform of Power, was posthumously published in 1972.
Maksim Borodin		15 April 2018	Journalist	Russian journalist who fell to his death from his apartment in unclear circumstances
Artyom Borovik	13 September 1960	9 March 2000	Journalist Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	A Russian journalist who was interested in the Russian apartment bombings. Died in a plane crash
Andrew Breitbart	1 February 1969	1 March 2012	Journalist Blogger	A political commentator who died of "heart failure" after exposing Anthony Weiner's sexting
Michael Corbin	29 April 1955	18 March 2008	Author Journalist Radio host Speaker	US researcher who hosted the radio shows 4acloserlook and the ParaNet Continuum, interviewing guests such as Gary Webb and Indira Singh etc. Died in 2008, aged 53.
Hans Engen	22 August 1912	6 April 1966	Diplomat Journalist Politician	Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations for 5 years, reportedly died in a skiing accident
Hiroshi Hasegawa		15 October 2001	Journalist 9-11/Premature death	An "exceptionally erudite" TV commentator who publicly urged caution about the claim that 9/11 was a Muslim led operation. His sudden death the next month was little reported by corporate media.
Jon Hellevig	26 February 1962	26 May 2020	Journalist Lawyer Businessperson	Finnish lawyer and businessman who worked in Russia since the early 1990s.
Erik Izraelewicz	6 February 1954	27 November 2012	Author Journalist Editor	Editor-in-chief in many newspapers
Steve Kangas	11 May 1961	8 February 1999	Whistleblower Spook Journalist Teacher	A spook turned whistleblower who was one of the first political campaigners on the internet. Probably murdered by the US Deep state.
Otto Lacis	22 June 1934	3 November 2005	Journalist Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	A member of the ill-fated Kovalev Commission who died in a car crash.
David McGowan	25 March 1960	23 November 2015	Author Researcher Journalist	A dogged researcher into the vast deceptions of power since well before 9-ll. McGowan has solid claim to being The First 9-11 Sceptic
Tim Russert	7 May 1950	13 June 2008	Journalist Clinton body count	US corporate journalist who made 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stumble. Died same year of heart attack, age 58.
Ed Schultz	27 January 1954	5 July 2018	Journalist Clinton body count	Television host for Russia Today who died prematurely, age 64, at a time of immense pressure on the channel.
Christopher Sign	1976	12 June 2021	Journalist Clinton body count	Journalist who broke story of Bill Clinton meeting Loretta Lynch in June 2016; died in June 2021. Declared suicide.
Merriman Smith	10 February 1913	13 April 1970	Journalist JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Put the first story about the JFK Assassination on the UPI newswire. Supposedly shot himself.
Craig Spence	1941	10 November 1989	Journalist Lobbyist Franklin child prostitution ring/Premature death Deep state actor Blackmailer?	A lobbyist who ran a call-boy ring for purposes of sexual blackmail, also implicated in the Franklin child prostitution ring. Died suddenly.
Hunter S. Thompson	18 July 1937	20 February 2005	Author Journalist 9-11/Premature death 9-11/Dissident	A prominent writer, openly critical of the US government. While writing an expose of 9/11 when he was found dead.
Victor Thorn	1 August 1962	1 August 2016	Author Journalist Research 9-11/Premature death 9-11/Dissident Clinton body count	A journalist and reporter who wrote many books on deep politics, including two on involvement of the Mossad and zionists in the events of 9-11. Died of a shot to the head in 2016.
Udo Ulfkotte	20 January 1960	13 January 2017	Whistleblower Journalist Editor	Former editor of a German broadsheet who exposed press corruption while also subscribing to Islamophobic views.
Evert Vermeer	20 November 1910	20 May 1960	Journalist Politician	Dutch journalist turned politician who attended the 1958 Bilderberg. Fell ill in 1959 and died in 1960
Joe Vialls	1944	17 July 2005	Researcher Journalist	An internet journalist who cricitised commercially controlled media, and suffered a premature death,
André Vltchek	1963	22 September 2020	Author Journalist Filmmaker Philosopher	Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist.
Gary Webb	31 August 1955	10 December 2004	Journalist CIA/Drug trafficking/Premature death	Clearly exposed the CIA's complicity in drug smuggling, simultaneously demonstrating the controlled nature of the US corporate media. He died from two gunshots to the head in 2004 which was ruled a suicide

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