# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lyra-mckee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:33:04.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lyra-mckee"
name: "Lyra McKee"
slug: "lyra-mckee"
description: "Lyra Catherine McKee was a journalist from Northern Ireland who wrote for several publications about the consequences of the Troubles. She also served as an editor for Mediagazer, a news aggregator website. On 18 April 2019, McKee was fatally shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area of Derry."
tagline: "Northern Irish journalist (1990-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lyra_McKee_(33207175144)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1990-03-31"
deathDate: "2019-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump