Katie Couric's Notebook: A Reporter Returns
Video: This was an emotional day at CBS. Eight months to the day after she was seriously injured by a car bomb in Iraq, Correspondent Kimberly Dozier returned to our newsroom for the first time.
She looks great, and she's clearly eager to get back to work. But this moment was bittersweet. No one could forget that Kimberly's two colleagues, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, didn't survive the attack. Kimberly paid tribute to them, speaking of them with great poignance. You can tell that loss is palpable.
Reporters like Kimberly are a reminder of all those who take such great risks to bring us the news. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 93 journalists have died covering the war in Iraq. Just as we can never forget the soldiers who serve there, we can't forget the reporters, either -- people like Kimberly, Paul and James, who seek to shed light on a dark and dangerous place.
That's a page from my notebook.