Kathy Gannon is a journalist, and News Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan, for the Associated Press. Gannon was attacked and wounded while reporting from Afghanistan.Her colleague, Anja Niedringhaus, was mortally wounded.Gannon has received extensive coverage as she struggled to recover from her wounds and return to war reporting. Gannon was born in Timmins, Ontario.In 2002 she won the International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism award.In 2003 she was awarded an Edward R. Murrow fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations.