After reporting from Cairo, Jill Carroll, 31, dropped out of war reporting
and last August started training as a firefighter in Virginia.
FAIRFAX, Virginia: In January 2006 when she was a freelancer on assignment with The Christian Science Monitor in Baghdad, Jill Carroll was kidnapped and held for 82 days. Her translator was killed.
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| Jill Carroll at a U.S. airbase in Germany after her release. |
After her release, Carrollwrote an 11-part report on her captivity that became The Monitor’s most popular and profitable series. She won a $30,000 Harvard fellowship awarded to “distinguished experts” in the media. But then after reporting from Cairo, Carroll, 31, dropped out of war reporting and last August started training as a firefighter in Fairfax.
Newsweeek noted that her fire department salary of $47,472 “beats the average newspaper salary by more than two grand.”