Liz Sly
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Liz Sly (born in the United Kingdom) is a British journalist based in Beirut.
She is currently a correspondent with The Washington Post covering Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and other countries of the Middle East.[1] She graduated from the University of Cambridge. She joined the Post in 2010 and previously worked for the Chicago Tribune from 1987 until 2003 in the roles of correspondent for Africa and Beijing.[2]
After the American occupation of Iraq in 2003, Liz Sly took over the management of the Chicago Tribune newspaper office in Baghdad from 2003 to 2010, and covered pivotal events in Iraq, including her coverage of the Iraqi Parliament elections on 15 December 2005, and the civil war in Iraq.[3][4]
After the death of Pope John Paul II on 2 April 2005, and being one of the few journalists in the world who has permission to cover the events of the Vatican, the Tribune dispatched Liz Sly to cover the facts of the death of Pope John Paul II and the procedures for choosing a successor in accordance with papal decrees in the Vatican.[5][6]
Her popular Twitter account was the subject of an academic paper about the viral impact of her retweet of a photo taken by Turkish journalist Nilufer Demir of a dead toddler washed up on a beach on 2 September 2015.[7][8] Her tweet was retweeted over 7,000 times and the reactions prompted her to write an article about her choice to retweet the image, commenting that she has been searching for years for ways to convey the extent of the problems in Syria and was shocked that people might find her tweet sensitive in any way.[9] The week before, Sly was interviewed on NPR about the Destruction of Palmyra.[10]
References
- ^ Liz Sly at the Washington Post
- ^ "Liz Sly". Washington Post. 28 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Chicago Tribune". www.chicagotribune.com. 28 November 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Chicago Tribune". 16 October 2005. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Chicago Tribune". www.chicagotribune.com. 29 June 2005. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Foreign Policy". www.foreignpolicy.com. 5 April 2005. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ (re-)Tweet by Twitter user LizSly on 2 September 2015
- ^ Analysis of the viral impact of the photo of Aylan Kurdi on Social Media by researchers led by Dr Farida Vis of University of Sheffield’s Visual Social Media Lab, 14 December 2015 (retrieved 13 March 2016)
- ^ Why I tweeted the photo of the dead Syrian toddler, Liz Sly in the Washington Post, 3 September 2015
- ^ 2,000-Year-Old Temple Destroyed At Syria's Ancient Ruins Of Palmyra on NPR, aired 24 August 2015
External links
- AMA "Ask Me Anything" interview on Reddit, 14 August 2012
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