Award-winning journalist who specialized in covering war crimes, human rights abuses, and post-conflict societies.

Born June 15, 1956, Neuffer graduated with honors from Cornell University, with a degree in history. She also earned a master’s degree in political philosophy from the London School of Economics. Neuffer began her career with The Boston Globe in the Washington bureau where she covered Capitol Hill and the Clinton Administration’s plan for health care reform. She also reported from Moscow on the breakup of the Soviet Union, and from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq during the Gulf War. The first reporter to reveal that indicted war criminals remained in power in post-war Bosnia, Neuffer dedicated almost a year to exclusively reporting about war crimes in Bosnia and Rwanda.

On May 9, 2003, she was killed in a car accident in Iraq while on assignment there covering the aftermath of the war.