{"id":369854,"date":"2026-04-01T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/369854\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:54:08","slug":"reporter-who-was-kidnapped-in-baghdad-was-known-for-pursuing-gutsy-low-budget-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/369854\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter who was kidnapped in Baghdad was known for pursuing gutsy, low-budget assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7IDGQUOSVBDYHIRJZZTJ7FM26I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BAGHDAD \u2014 American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson often worked without formal assignments from editors and on a shoestring budget, taking shared taxis to lawless corners <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iraq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">of Iraq<\/a> where militia rule outweighs government control.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JTXD36DDU5B4TIE4WQDLOVODHU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Kittleson, 49, has lived abroad for years, using Rome as her base for a time and building a respected journalism career across the Middle East. On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iraq-journalist-kidnapped-926840aa37ac059f05069e146d1fe17b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she vanished<\/a> after being forced into a car by two men at a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/baghdad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">busy Baghdad<\/a> intersection, surveillance camera footage showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAGHDAD \u2014 American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson often worked without formal assignments from editors and on a shoestring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122,42,12275,108562,177995,43,40,38,41,39,126],"class_list":["post-369854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-journalism","tag-kidnapping","tag-ml-iraq-kidnapped-journalist-profile","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}