Melissa Howard (Napoleon's World)

Melissa Howard (February 6, 1963 - January ?, 1996) was a foreign affairs correspondent for the Australia Broadcasting Corporation who was kidnapped and murdered along with photojournalist Gwen Harris by Banjarese military personnel in January of 1996 due to her role as Senior Correspondent covering the Banjar Civil War and Dayak Genocide for the ABC, in what became known as the Howard-Harris Affair. The murders would eventually lead to Operation Monsoon Wind, the Oceanian bombing campaign against Banjar that led to the 1997 Darwin Accords.

Howard was a career journalist who had served as a foreign correspondent since 1989 throughout Southeast Asia and spoke fluent Chinese and Malay. The ABC's new headquarters, inaugurated in 2001, sits at the address of One Melissa Howard Street and its annual excellence award for its foreign correspondence team is the Melissa Howard Prize. She is the only ABC reporter to ever be killed on the job.