Marie Colvin: an Amazing Woman Whose Life Was Cut Short Trying to Present Us with the Truth

From History News Network:

2018 was an annus horribilis for freedom of the press. Reporters Without Borders announced that 63 professional journalists were killed, of whom 49 were specifically targeted for death by an army or rebel group. 

The most famous journalistic killing came on October 2, when agents of the Saudi government murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident and columnist for The Washington Post. 

The conditions endured by journalists in war zones are portrayed in chilling detail in Lindsey Hilsum’s new book on war correspondent Marie Colvin (In Extremis). A staff reporter for The Sunday Times of London, Colvin died on February 22, 2012, aged 56, in Homs, Syria. The Syrian army, honing in on her satellite phone, targeted an artillery strike on the building where she was reporting from. 

At the time, Colvin was arguably one of the best-known war correspondents at work. With her distinctive black eyepatch, flak jacket and wavy hair tied in a bun, she was familiar to many Americans through her frequent appearances on CNN and other news outlets. 

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On The Frontline by Marie Colvin

A Private War by Marie Brenner

In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsay Hilsum

Under the Wire by Paul Conroy

Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the best Journalism by Women by Eleanor Mills

Bearing Witness: The Lives of War Correspondents and Photojournalists by Denise Leith