News Clips for Marie Colvin
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News Clips For Marie Colvin TRIBUTES ............................................................................................................................................................ 2 New York Times Blog: Tributes for Journalists Killed in Syrian Conflict ........................................................... 2 The Guardian: David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Rupert Murdoch pay tribute to Marie Colvin ....................... 3 The Guardian: Sunday Times editor pays tribute to Marie Colvin .................................................................... 4 Huffington Post: Marie Colvin Dead: Rupert Murdoch Pays Tribute To Veteran War Reporter ....................... 5 CNN.com: Amanpour: Marie Colvin shone light on victims .............................................................................. 6 BBC News: Jim Muir's tribute to Marie Colvin .................................................................................................. 8 The New Age: British PM pays tribute to journalist slain in Syria ................................................................... 10 The Telegraph: Marie Colvin killed in Homs: tributes to Sunday Times journalist .......................................... 10 The Daily Beast: Marie Colvin, My Courageous Friend .................................................................................. 12 The New Yorker: Postscript: Marie Colvin, 1956-2012 ................................................................................... 12 The Times: Marie Colvin: Resourceful and courageous foreign correspondent renowned for her intrepid forays into some of the most dangerous places on earth ............................................................................... 14 The Globe and Mail: Slain journalist was ‘thorough, honest, fearless’ ........................................................... 16 The Independent: Marie Colvin Award-winning foreign correspondent hailed for her courage and compassion ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 Mother Jones: RIP, Marie Colvin .................................................................................................................... 18 The New Yorker: A Tribute to Marie Colvin .................................................................................................... 20 Telegraph: Lord Levenson pays tribute to Marie Colvin work as ‘the best in journalism’ ............................... 22 Gerald Weaver: Tribute to Marie Colvin ......................................................................................................... 22 Katrina Heron: For Marie Colvin ..................................................................................................................... 23 Newsday: Marie Colvin mourned by family, colleagues ................................................................................. 25 Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle: Crewmates pay tribute to Hammersmith journalist Marie Colvin ........... 26 Jerusalem Post: Friends mourn US journalist killed in Syria as 'fearless' ...................................................... 27 London Evening Standard In the club that she loved, Marie's inner circle grieved for the friend they'd lost .. 29 BBC News / Africa: Remembering Marie Colvin: Your Thoughts and Memories ........................................... 30 New York Sun: Farewell to an American ‘Princess’ Murdered in Syria .......................................................... 32 The Independent: Marie Colvin had no death wish. She was in love with life ................................................ 33 OBITUARIES ...................................................................................................................................................... 34 Legacy: Marie Colvin ...................................................................................................................................... 34 The Daily Telegraph: Obit: Marie Colvin ......................................................................................................... 36 The Guardian: Marie Colvin obituary .............................................................................................................. 38 The Yale Daily News: From the Archives: Colvin '78 reflects on Yale career ................................................ 40 Financial Times: The bravest war journalist of her generation ....................................................................... 41 Vanity Fair: Correspondent Marie Colvin: 1957-2012 ..................................................................................... 42 Daily News Egypt: Agence France-Press: Marie Colvin: reporter who knew risks of war all too well ............ 44 Charleston Gazette: Marie Colvin—the natural .............................................................................................. 45 Independent (Ireland): Marie Colvin: Foreign correspondent of great courage and charm, who delivered the wartime stories of rebels, underdogs and victims ........................................................................................... 46 REACTIONS/ARTICLES .................................................................................................................................... 48 The New York Times: Ghastly Images Flow From Shattered Syrian City ...................................................... 48 The New York Post: Syria slays NY journo legend who returned to document tragedy ................................. 50 TIME: War Reporter Marie Colvin and Photographer Rémi Ochlik Are Killed ................................................ 52 Reuters: PROFILE-Marie Colvin, intrepid and fearless war correspondent ................................................... 53 Miami Herald: American war reporter Marie Colvin killed in Syria .................................................................. 55 The Daily Mail: Mother of veteran war reporter Marie Colvin said her daughter was due to leave Syria on same day she was killed in rocket attack ........................................................................................................ 57 The Guardian: Marie Colvin experienced war alongside those who suffered in war ...................................... 62 The New York Times: Recalling Her Determined Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria ................................ 64 Daily News (UK): Marie Colvin, American-born journalist killed in Syria, remembered as fearless ............... 65 The Guardian Blog: For Marie Colvin the victims were the story, not the reporter ......................................... 66 The New York Times blog: The Lede: American Reporter Marie Colvin's Final Dispatches From Homs ...... 68 Newsday: Journalists killed trying to find the truth .......................................................................................... 70 Electronic Frontier Foundation/ Deeplinks Blog: Satphones, Syria and Surveillance .................................... 71 The Daily Star (Lebanon): France, U.K., work to bring bodies home ............................................................. 72 ABC News blog: Dangers of the "journalism of attachment" .......................................................................... 74 The Journal: Northumberland photographer tells of working in war zone with Marie Colvin .......................... 76 The Herald (Scotland): Syria is not Libya but is it Bosnia in the making? ...................................................... 77 Fairfax NZ News: Risking your life to tell the world ........................................................................................ 79 The Economist: Firing Lines ........................................................................................................................... 79 Tribune de Geneve blog: Marie Colvin: death of a reporter ............................................................................ 80 TRIBUTES http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/two-journalists-killed-in-syrian- conflict/?scp=2&sq=marie%20colvin&st=cse New York Times Blog: Tributes for Journalists Killed in Syrian Conflict By Harvey Morris February 22, 2012, 5:56 am Agence France-Presse —The murderous civil conflict in Syria has claimed its latest journalist victims and the life of one of the gutsiest writers ever to haul a notebook to a frontline. The deaths were confirmed on Wednesday of Marie Colvin of the London Sunday Times, and Rémi Ochlik, a French photographer, killed in the shelling of a house in the besieged city of Homs. Marie, a 55-year-old American who spent most of her working life based in London, but more often on the road, was a journalist who never gave up. She stayed on when others left and had already paid the price of her persistence. News of her death brought immediate reaction from colleagues, such as Jon Snow of Britain’s Channel 4, who came to admire her unfailing courage. It also prompted tributes in the British House of Commons, where David Cameron, the prime minister, opened a session of question time by saying: “This is a desperately sad reminder of the risks that journalists take to inform the world of what is happening and the desperate events in Syria.” Rupert Murdoch, the Sunday Times owner, said in an e-mail to staff she was “one of the most outstanding foreign correspondents of her generation.” There were also tributes for Mr. Ochlik, 28, who had just been