丹尼尔·珀尔

Daniel Pearl (1963-2002) was the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan in January 2002 while investigating a story linking shoe-bomber Richard Reid to al-Qaeda, and murdered the following month. His widow Mariane Pearl wrote A Mighty Heart (2003), adapted into the 2007 film with Angelina Jolie. The case became a defining moment for press freedom debates after 9/11.

Standard Xinhua-style transliteration: 丹尼尔 (Dānní'ěr) is the conventional rendering of 'Daniel,' and 珀尔 (Pò'ěr) is one of two competing renderings of 'Pearl' (the other is 珀尔 vs 珍珠's literal 'pearl' meaning). The middle dot '·' separates given name from surname per Xinhua convention for foreign personal names.