Anne Garrels, Longtime NPR International Correspondent, Dies at 71

Garrels died in her home after a battle with lung cancer

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Anne Garrels, an international correspondent for NPR best known for her many reports from the front lines of world events, has died. She was 71 years old.

Garrels died in her home this week, after a battle with lung cancer. She was remembered by those at her workplace “as a passionate reporter willing to go anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice if the story required it” and “a warm and generous friend to many.” NPR’s Deborah Amos remembered Garrels as a woman who “was always braver than me, and I always understood that she was braver than me.”

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