Michael Hastings (journalist)

Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, writer and reporter for BuzzFeed.[4] The son of doctors Molly and Brent Hastings, he graduated from Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington, Vermont in 1998, and New York University in 2002.[5]

Michael Hastings
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Hastings with Valerie Jarrett at President Obama's victory celebration at the McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois. (November 2012)
Born
Michael Mahon Hastings

(1980-01-28)January 28, 1980
DiedJune 18, 2013(2013-06-18) (aged 33)
Cause of deathRoad accident
NationalityUnited States
OccupationJournalist
Known forReporting from Iraq and Afghanistan
Notable work
Book I Lost My Love in Baghdad; A Modern War Story[2] and Rolling Stone, "The Runaway General"
Spouse(s)Elise Jordan
Websitewww.michaelhastings.com
Notes
Profile in Contemporary Authors Online[3]

He was a regular writer for Gentlemen's Quarterly and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine.[6] From 2002 - 2008, he was a journalist for Newsweek magazine, famous for his Iraq War coverage and book about the death of his fiancée Andrea Parhamovich I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story.[7]

Hastings died in a 4:30am single-vehicle automobile crash in Los Angeles on June 18, 2013.[8][9]

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References

  1. Vermont General Assembly, Joint Concurrent House Resolution 65, 2007
  2. Hastings, Michael (2008). I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. ISBN 978-1416560975.
  3. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Document Number: H1000192617
  4. "Michael Hastings". www.buzzfeed.com.
  5. The South Reporter, Society: Elise Jordan and Michael Hastings to wed May 21 in Hernando Archived 2013-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, May, 2011
  6. Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter, GQ, October 2008.
  7. "Backstory". Gentlemen's Quarterly. April 1, 2008. http://business.highbeam.com/437597/article-1G1-187867499/backstory. Retrieved 2010-06-24. "This war. It takes and takes. Drains the budget, flays the soul. Or--immeasurably worse--it claims the person you love most. In January 2007, aid worker Andi Parhamovich was killed in Baghdad while her boyfriend, Newsweek 's Michael Hastings, worked a few miles away (page 166). Hastings has since returned to Iraq; he can't get Andi or the war out of his system.". 
  8. Dickinson, Tim (18 June 2013). Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-rolling-stone-contributor-dead-at-33-20130618. Retrieved 18 June 2013. 
  9. Statement on Michael Hastings, BuzzFeed, June 18, 2013

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