Marie Colvin
 Marie Colvin    (journalist) | |
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| Born | Marie Catherine Colvin 12 January 1956 |
| Died | 22 February 2012 (Age 56) |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
Marie Colvin was an American journalist who worked as a foreign affairs correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1985 until her death. She died while embedded with rebel forces during the siege of Homs in Syria.[1]
In July 2016, lawyers representing Colvin's family filed a civil action against the government of the Syrian Arab Republic claiming they had obtained proof that the Syrian government had directly ordered her assassination.[2]
In Memoriam
After her death, Stony Brook University established the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting in her honour. Her family also established the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund through the Long Island Community Foundation, which strives to give donations in Marie's name in honour of her humanitarianism.[3]
Biography
In 2018, Marie Colvin’s friend and fellow war correspondent Lindsey Hilsum wrote her biography, taking Colvin from her suburban American childhood into her astonishing and inspiring career as a reporter covering one humanitarian disaster after another in Iraq, Kosovo, East Timor, Chechnya, Sri Lanka and Libya. Along the way there are love affairs, friendships and endless parties. Colvin’s energy and passion were irresistible and everyone who encountered her wanted to be her friend, including Yasser Arafat and Muammar Gaddafi.
Her heroine was Martha Gellhorn and the two women had a lot in common, from their backgrounds to their desire to change the world. Colvin shared Gellhorn’s distrust of “all that objectivity shit”. After getting trapped in Kosovo, she declared:
- “When you’re physically uncovering graves in Kosovo, I don’t think there are two sides to the story. To me there is a right and a wrong, a morality, and if I don’t report that, I don’t see the reason for being there.”[4]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Outrage over killing of journalists is essential | Article | 11 November 2018 | Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | Above all we need to protect the laws and institutions which would have protected Anna Politkovskaya, Marie Colvin and Jamal Khashoggi had they been universal. We need to treat a threat to journalists anywhere as a threat to journalists everywhere. |
References
- ↑ "Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling"
- ↑ "Marie Colvin's family sues Syria over death in Homs"
- ↑ "Marie Colvin "A Woman of Valor"". Long Island Community Foundation. Retrieved July 31, 2015.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum review – the life of war correspondent Marie Colvin"
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