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Jessica Elgot

Why Syria Is Still No Go For Foreign Reporters, One Year Since Marie Colvin's Death

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Elgot | Posted 22.02.2013 | UK

When Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed in Homs, Syria, the bloody conflict had regularly been the front p...

Marie Colvin Memorial Service Held

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.05.2012 | UK

Leading figures from the worlds of media, politics and the arts gathered to pay an emotional tribute to "bravest of the brave" war correspondent Marie...

Syria: Assad Visits Former Rebel Stronghold Of Homs

AFP/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has visited the former rebel stronghold of Homs, the scene of fierce fighting with government forces that left hundre...

Marie Colvin Dead: Syrian Activists Post Video 'Showing Burial Of Slain Journalist'

Huffington Post UK / PA | Sara C Nelson | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK

A video claiming to show the burial of slain journalist Marie Colvin has been posted online. The clip, posted on YouTube by Syrian activists, was ...

'We're Doing Everything We Possibly Can'

PA | Posted 26.02.2012 | UK

The government is doing everything it "possibly can" to secure the return of journalists trapped in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, International De...

Syrian Government Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity, Claims UN Report

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK

Syrian government forces have committed crimes against humanity on its own citizens, the United Nations has said. Soldiers acting under the "highes...

Syria: 'We're Not Responsible For Journalists' Deaths'

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK

The foreign ministry of Syria has claimed the government was not responsible for the deaths of two Western journalists and around 20 other people in t...

The Other Side of Marie Colvin

Christopher Simon Sykes | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK
Christopher Simon Sykes

John Witherow, Marie Colvin's editor, recently said this of her: "She was much more than a war reporter. She was a woman with a tremendous joie de vivre, full of humour and mischief and surrounded by a large circle of friends, all of whom feared the consequences of her bravery." I was one of those friends, who never ceased to worry about what might one day happen to her.

'Just One More Story'

PA | Posted 22.02.2012 | UK

Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed after defying an order to leave the besieged Syrian city of Homs because she wanted to finish "one mor...

'Brave, Tireless And Extraordinary': David Cameron Leads Tributes To Colvin

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 22.02.2012 | UK

David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch have led the tributes to Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin after she was killed in an artillery attack on the Syri...

Marie Colvin Dead: Citizen Journalist Describes Moment Deadly Mortars Struck

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK

A citizen journalist in the embattled city of Homs has described the moment that the sky rained with shells and destroyed a makeshift media centre, ki...

A Deliberate Target?

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 22.02.2012 | UK

Syria could have deliberately targeted Western journalists, according to reports in The Daily Telegraph. Syrian authorities said they were unaware ...

Marie Colvin: What She Would Have Wanted

Charlie Beckett | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK
Charlie Beckett

Anyone who worked with or met Marie Colvin, or consumed her extraordinary output knew she was more than just a great journalist. She was also a huge personality bursting with compassion for the suffering that her reporting showed us

'She Was Extraordinary': Sunday Times Editor Pays Tribute To Colvin

Posted 22.02.2012 | UK

Full statement: I want to report with great shock the sad news of the death of Marie Colvin in Syria today. We have reliable reports that Marie was...

Foreign Secretary And Others Pay Tribute To Colvin

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 22.02.2012 | UK

William Hague has paid tribute to murdered Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin saying he is "deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic news." He s...

Journalists Marie Colvin And Remi Ochlik Reported Dead In Syria

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK

Two journalists and seven local activists have been killed after a makeshift media centre was shelled in the Syrian city of Homs. The reporters wer...