David Gilkey is staff photographer and video editor for National Public Radio covering national and international news and producing photo essays, video, multimedia presentations for NPR.org and radio reports for NPR. As one of the first unilateral journalists to enter Afghanistan and the first to cross the border into Iraq while embedded with the U.S. Army, Gilkey has been covering the war on terrorism since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Other news events he has covered include the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the Haiti earthquake, the fall of apartheid in South Africa, famine and conflict in Somalia, tribal warfare in Rwanda and the war in the Balkans. The Haiti work earned Gilkey two 2011 Investigative Reporters & Editors awards. Also in 2011, he was named Still Photographer of the Year by the White House Press Photographers Association and saw his story “Black Hearts†awarded second in the Multimedia News Story category of POYi. His contribution to the NPR Investigation “Brain Wars: How the Military is Failing the Wounded†was recognized with a 2010 George Polk Award. While on the staff of the Detroit Free Press, Gilkey won a national Emmy in 2007 for his video series “Band of Brothers†, and was the 2004 Michigan Photographer of the Year. His first job after studying journalism at Oregon State University was with the Boulder (CO) Daily Camera where he handled local assignments for the newspaper and overseas assignments for Knight Ridder.