Michael Deane

Michael Douglas Deane (24 September 1951 – 14 August 2013), known as "Mick", was a British journalist and cameraman who worked for ITN, CNN, and SkyNews. Deane was killed by sniper fire while covering the Rabaa massacre in Cairo, Egypt, which the Committee to Protect Journalists said was Egypt's most violent day against journalists and which Human Rights Watch called Egypt's bloodiest day.

Personal 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. While he directed his camera at a group of women gathered near the mosque, Deane was shot by a sniper and died minutes later.

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.