Wednesday, February 22, 2012...10:53 pm
Marie Colvin – a sketchy timeline
Veteran foreign correspondent Marie Colvin has been reported killed today in Syria, alongside French photographer Remi Ochlik. Biographical details online are scant – but here’s a sketchy timeline (UPDATE: Wikipedia caught up with her today, but I’m updating here anyway).
1956/57* – born in Oyster Bay, New York
1974 – graduates from Oyster Bay High School in New York
Studies at Yale University
Crime reporter for the United Press Agency in New York
1984 – becomes Paris bureau chief for United Press International
1985 – joins The Sunday Times
1986 – becomes Middle East correspondent
1995 – becomes Foreign Affairs correspondent
December 1999 – covers Chechnya conflict in the Russian republic. Alongside a group of Chechen rebels, she was “repeatedly attacked by Russian jet fighters”
October* 2000 – receives “Courage in Journalism” award from the International Women’s Media Foundation for behind the lines reporting in Kosova and Chechnya
March 2001 – wins “Foreign Reporter of the Year” in British Press Awards for her coverage of the conflict in Yugoslavia
17 April 2001 – ambushed by government forces in Sri Lanka. Shrapnel injuries result in the loss of her left eye
23 March 2010 – wins “Foreign Reporter of the Year” for the second time
22 February 2012 – reported killed in Homs, Syria in an artillery attack
*estimates
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