Marie Colvin
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Marie Catherine Colvin January 12, 1956 Astoria, Queens, New York City New York, US |
| Died | February 22, 2012 (aged 56) Homs, Syria |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Yale University |
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| Spouse(s) | Patrick Bishop (divorced) Juan Carlos Gumucio (his death) |
Marie Catherine Colvin (January 12, 1956 – February 22, 2012) was an American journalist who worked for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1985 until her death. She died while covering the siege of Homs in Syria.
After her death, Stony Brook University established the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting in her honor. Her family also established the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund through the Long Island Community Foundation, which strives to give donations in Marie's name in honor of her humanitarianism. In July 2016, lawyers representing Colvin's family filed a civil action against the government of the Syrian Arab Republic claiming they had obtained proof that the Syrian government had directly ordered her assassination.
Marie Colvin was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, and grew up in East Norwich in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, on Long Island. She graduated from Oyster Bay High School in 1974. She spent her junior year of high school abroad on an exchange program in Brazil and later attended Yale University. She was an anthropology major but took a course with the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer John Hersey. She also started writing for The Yale Daily News “and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1978. During her time at Yale, Colvin was known for her strong personality and quickly established herself as a “noise-maker” on campus.
Colvin worked briefly for a labor union in New York City, before starting her journalism career with United Press International (UPI), a year after graduating from Yale. She worked for UPI first in Trenton, then New York and Washington. In 1984, Colvin was appointed Paris bureau manager for UPI, before moving to The Sunday Times in 1985.
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