Daniel Pearl

Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963–January 29/30, 2002) was a journalist, an American-Israeli dual citizen. He was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan, while investigating the case of convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid.

His life

Daniel Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in Encino in southern California where he went to Portola Middle School. His father, Judea Pearl, was a professor at UCLA. He attended Stanford University from 1981 to 1985, where he stood out as a communication major with Phi Beta Kappa honors and co-founded a student newspaper called the Stanford Commentary. Daniel graduated Stanford with a B.A. in Communications, after which he spent a summer as a Pulliam Fellow intern at the Indianapolis Star and a winter bussing tables as a ski bum in Idaho. Following a trip to the then-Soviet Union, China, and Europe, he joined the North Adams Transcript and the Berkshire Eagle in Western Massachusetts, then moved on to the San Francisco Business Times.

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In 1990, Daniel started in the Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau and moved to the Washington, DC bureau in 1993 to cover telecommunications. He jumped to the Journal's London bureau in 1996 as a Middle East correspondent, before meeting his wife-to-be Mariane in 1998 and resettling in Paris. The two were married in 1999. The couple relocated to Mumbai in 2000, where Daniel became the Journal's South Asia bureau chief. He was best known for writing "A-heads", colorful and unusual feature articles printed down the middle of the Journal's front page—such as the October 1994 story of a Stradivarius violin allegedly found on a highway on-ramp, and a June 2000 story about Iranian pop music.

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