Ned Colt
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Ned Colt was a correspondent for NBC News, reporting from Beijing, Hong Kong, Iraq and various other locations around the world including sites within Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
His coverage of the Iraq War was essential to the network, and his dedication to his job occasionally led him into dangerous situations. There was the time he reported from the Indian Ocean tsunami, or the particularly harrowing instance where, while covering the uprising in Fallujah, Colt and his TV crew were kidnapped and held for three days by Iraqi insurgents. Ned’s dignity and calm under pressure in that situation and others was noted and admired by his colleagues.
Ned Colt was a correspondent for NBC News, reporting from Beijing, Hong Kong, Iraq and various other locations around the world including sites within Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
His coverage of the Iraq War was essential to the network, and his dedication to his job occasionally led him into dangerous situations. There was the time he reported from the Indian Ocean tsunami, or the particularly harrowing instance where, while covering the uprising in Fallujah, Colt and his TV crew were kidnapped and held for three days by Iraqi insurgents. Ned’s dignity and calm under pressure in that situation and others was noted and admired by his colleagues.
Colt began his career in 1982 working at network affiliates in Boston, Raleigh, Jacksonville and Duluth. He worked for NBC News from 1996 until 2009, when he left to work for two humanitarian agencies: the International Rescue Committee and the United Nations office dedicated to refugees. He also became an adjunct professor of journalism at Boston University during that time.
Colt died February 12, 2015, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 58.
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