Marie Colvin

Marie Colvin who was one of the Veteran British war correspondents was announced dead today. Colvin was killed Wednesday in a shelling attack in Syria. She worked for The Sunday Times and was killed alongside another journalist, French photojournalist Remi Ochlik on Wednesday. The house they both were staying at was shelled and they were struck by fire as they were trying to escape. Colvin was known for loosing an eye to shrapnel when covering a conflict in Sri Lanka in 2001, this happened just two weeks after Colvin, 44, was named the best foreign correspondent in the British Press Awards. 
Colvin attended Yale University and covered many conflicts in foreign countries, allowing her to be awarded the 2000 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation. 


I think it can be said all in all, Marie Colvin was an outstanding women who us journalists should take our hats off to, she lost her life for her career and can now be seen as a very successful journalist.