Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Marie colvin

  • This is how a BBC editor remembered Marie Colvin, the New York native who spent nearly three decades as a war correspondent for The Times of London: Imagine a real-life Katharine Hepburn heroine but braver and funnier.
  • (USA Today)
  • LONDON - Respected American journalist Marie Colvin, who spent decades reporting on conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria, focusing on the suffering of women and children in wartime, died in a fierce shelling attack Wednesday in Syria.
  • (CBS News)
  • A celebrated American-born war reporter and a young French photographer were killed on Wednesday morning when Syrian forces bombed a makeshift media center in the besieged city of Homs.
  • (Time)
  • She was instantly recognizable for the eye patch that hid a shrapnel injury — a testament to Marie Colvins courage, which took her behind the front lines of the worlds deadliest conflicts to write about the suffering of individuals trapped in war.
  • (AP - msnbc.com)
  • Two prominent Western journalists have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs in the latest violence in the besieged city which left 20 people dead.
  • (BBC News)
  • (CNN)-- Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin was one of two Western reporters killed in Homs, Syria on Wednesday. Just hours earlier, she had given one of her final interviews to CNNs Anderson Cooper.
  • (CNN)
  • Editors note: In this piece, CNN Senior Executive Producer Paul Varian looks back on the career of longtime reporter Marie Colvin, who was one of two Western journalists killed Wednesday while covering an uprising in Syria.
  • (CNN (blog))
  • Sunday Times of London owner Rupert Murdoch paid tribute to famed American war reporter Marie Colvin on Wednesday, after news of her tragic death surfaced.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Celebrated American war reporter Marie Covlin died in a shelling attack in Syria on Wednesday.
  • (International Business Times)

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