Michael Hastings (journalist)

Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, writer and reporter for BuzzFeed. The son of doctors Molly and Brent Hastings, he graduated from Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington, Vermont in 1998, and New York University in 2002.The South Reporter, Society: Elise Jordan and Michael Hastings to wed May 21 in Hernando , May, 2011

He was a regular writer for Gentlemen's Quarterly and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine.Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter , GQ, October 2008.  From 2002 - 2008, he was a journalist for Newsweek magazine, famous for his Iraq War coverage and book about the death of his fiancée Andrea Parhamovich I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story.

Hastings died in a 4:30am single-vehicle automobile crash in Los Angeles on June 18, 2013.Statement on Michael Hastings, BuzzFeed, June 18, 2013

References

Other websites
 Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone on the Story that Brought Down Gen. McChrystal – video report by Democracy Now!
C-SPAN Q&A interview with Hastings, January 29, 2012
Michael Hastings on CNN debating the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus with Gen. Mark Kimmitt, Lt. Col. Rick Francona, and Piers Morgan

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