Margaret Moth, combat zone photographer, dies

Margaret Moth, a tough CNN photojournalist who worked in war zones and favored the color black, died yesterday at 59. She had colon cancer, according to the Associated Press obituary.

In 1992, she was shot in the face by a sniper while covering the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her jaw and part of her tongue were destroyed. Several reconstructive surgeries and two years later, she returned to Bosnia to work.

She was born Margaret Wilson but changed her name to Margaret Gipsy Moth. She was a skydiver who jumped from a Tiger Moth airplane -- and she wanted a name of her own rather than one that she was given.

Photos courtesy Associated Press.