Michael Deane (journalist)

Michael Douglas Deane was born in 1951 in Hanover, Germany and attended school in Surbition Grammar School. In the 1970s, he met his wife Daniela, an Italian-American journalist, in Rome during a hot air balloon ride. Deane pursued a career of journalism as a sound and cameraman. == Career ==

Deane began his career as a journalist with CNN as a sound and cameraman in the early 1980s. His last assignment was filming clashes between Egyptian security forces and supporters of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's deposed president, in Cairo, Egypt. == Death ==

Michael Deane had just recently been assigned to Egypt with Sky News Middle East correspondent Sam Kiley. While he directed his camera at a group of women gathered near the mosque, Deane was shot by a sniper and died minutes later. == Context ==

The killing of Michael Deane was also reported by the committee to Protect Journalists. It noted that Deane was the 1,000th recorded death of journalists worldwide. He was reported to be one of three other journalists killed that Wednesday. Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, a female Egyptian journalist for the Gulf News XPRESS newspaper, was shot and killed. So was Egyptian reporter Ahmed Abdel Gawad, an editorial manager for the Muslim Brotherhood satellite television channel Misr 25, who was shot in the back and killed. Also killed was photojournalist Mosab El-Shami with Rassd News Network. == Impact ==

The August 2013 Rabaa Massacre was the most serious massacre in Egypt, according to Human Rights Watch. == Reactions ==

After the death of Deane, his team from Sky News expressed their grief and sorrow for his family's loss. John Ryley, head of Sky News, accredited him as "the very best of cameramen, a brilliant journalist and an inspiring mentor to many at Sky." Nearly a year later, Daniela responded to her husband's killing alongside many others in the opinion page of The Washington Post. She wrote: We have to remember, then, that behind every number, on the back of every death, is a devastating loss for those left behind. And a very personal experience of grief. == See also ==