Paul Moran

Paul William Moran (30 May 1963 – 22 March 2003) was an Australian freelance photojournalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and an experienced international journalist. Moran was killed by a suicide car bomb at a checkpoint just outside Khurmal, in northeast Iraq near the border with Iran during the Iraq War. He was the first international media casualty of the Iraq war. According to the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance, Moran was one of three Australian cases where journalist(s) have been killed with impunity.

Personal details Paul Moran was the youngest in a family of four boys. He was born and raised in Adelaide to parents, Gerry and Kath Moran. His alma mater was Sacred Heart College in Adelaide.

Career Paul Moran was a freelance cameraman for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He moved to London 1990 and it was there that he made his initial Middle East contacts which were to inspire his interest in this region. Moran worked for the ABC as a cameraman in northern Iraq in 2003. According to the Committee to Protect Journalist, as of 2013 one-hundred and fifty journalist have been killed in Iraq since the US invasion.

Koïchiro Matsuura, the director of UNESCO, said, "In a war that also includes a fierce media battle, the task of seeking independent information is especially vital if world public opinion is to avoid being the target of manipulation and propaganda" and the killing of journalists like Moran was a violation of Article 79 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention.

Foundation Paul Moran Foundation was established by his wife. The non-for-profit funded a children's library in Erbil, which is in the Kurdish area.