By: (AP) A senior reporter and a veteran photographer for
Time magazine were wounded along with two U.S. soldiers when a grenade was tossed into their Humvee, the military and the magazine said Thursday.
Time senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf and contributing photographer James Nachtwey were traveling with a U.S. Army patrol in Baghdad on Wednesday night when the attack occurred, a statement from
Time Managing Editor Jim Kelley said.
A military spokesman said they were with a unit of the Army's 1st Armored Division.
The military official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said one of the journalists was severely wounded and the other was slightly injured.
Time said both were in stable condition and were awaiting transfer to a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.
Nachtwey is an award-winning photographer known for haunting images of war and poverty. He was the subject of a 2001 Oscar-nominated documentary,
War Photographer, and has won many awards. This year he shared a $1 million Dan David prize for documenting "the apocalyptic events of our time."
Weisskopf is an award-winning correspondent based in Washington. He covers national politics and investigations and was a finalist in the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
The Paris-based World Association of Newspapers has said that at least 16 journalists have been killed in Iraq this year. Many others have been wounded.
In the last known incident, police said the editor of an independent newspaper in the northern city of Mosul was shot and killed on Oct. 28.
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