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Marie Catherine Colvin (January 12, 1956 – February 22, 2012) was an American journalist who worked as a foreign affairs correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1985 until her death.
Feb 26, 2012 · Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent who was killed in Syria last week, died trying to get her shoes so she could escape a shelling attack, her paper reported Sunday. Colvin, a New...
Nov 4, 2018 · Syrian Defector: Assad Forces Targeted, Killed Journalist Marie Colvin. Her story is being told in a new biopic called A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike, and in a new book by Lindsey Hilsum...
“Marie was an extraordinary figure in the life of The Sunday Times driven by a passion to cover wars in the conviction that what she did mattered. She believed profoundly that reporting could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes and make the international community take notice.”
Feb 6, 2019 · After the war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed in Syria in 2012, I set out to write her biography, with the aim of bringing my friend back to life.
Marie’s Story. Marie was born in Astoria, Queens and raised in Oyster Bay, New York. Her parents, William and Rosemarie were both high school teachers, and Marie was the oldest of five children.
Dec 12, 2018 · Marie Colvin was a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times in London, and one of the most remarkable war reporters of her generation. She covered every...
May 16, 2012 · The memorial service for Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times journalist killed in Syria last February, took place in a packed St Martin-in-the-Fields church in central London. Ms Colvin was 56 when...
Colvin is credited with helping to save the lives of 1,500 refugees stranded in a United Nations compound in Dili, besieged by the Indonesian army. The army wanted to remove the UN as witnesses to their terrorising of the Timorese who had voted for independence.
Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed in Syria in February 2012 while reporting the cruelty of war. She specialised in the Middle East, spending more than 30 years covering the impact of conflict on civilians, including reporting from Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Syria from 1984 until her death in Homs in 2012.
