Michelle Lang

Michelle Justine Lang (31 January 1975 – 30 December 2009) was a Canadian journalist. Lang was a Calgary Herald reporter and the first Canadian journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan.^[1]

Michelle Lang
Born	(1975-01-31)31 January 1975 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Died	30 December 2009(2009-12-30) (aged 34) Kandahar, Afghanistan
Education	Simon Fraser University
Occupation	Reporter
Notable credit	Calgary Herald

Biography

Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lang was an alumnus of Magee Secondary School and Simon Fraser University. Her first job as a reporter was at the Prince George Free Press. She later moved on to Moose Jaw Times Herald and the Regina Leader-Post, then moved to Calgary to become a print journalist for the Calgary Herald. She won a National Newspaper Award in 2008 for best beat reporting,^[2] for her reporting on national and provincial health-care issues.^[3]

Lang was on a six-week assignment to Afghanistan for the Herald and Canwest News Service^[4] when the armoured military vehicle she was riding in struck a roadside bomb.^[5] She died of her wounds and four Canadian soldiers were killed in the blast.^[6]

See also

• List of journalists killed during the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
• Embedded journalism