Press Freedom book talk on war correspondent Marie Colvin to take place Monday

Lindsey Hilsum will talk about fellow journalist Marie Colvin at an event sponsored by the National Press Club's Freedom of the Press Committee at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3.

Hilsum first met Colvin in 1998 while they both were on assignment in Djibouti. Their instant bond lasted until the end when Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012. Everyone knew of Colvin’s reporting from the world’s most treacherous war zones, but after her death, Hilsum realized that there was much she did not know about her friend and colleague.

Her new book, "In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin," focuses on Colvin’s life and death.

Tickets are required for the event, being held in partnership with the International Women's Media Foundation. They are $5 for Club members and $10 for nonmembers, and can be purchased online. Books will be sold at the event.

Hilsum is the international editor for Channel 4 News in Britain. She has covered many of the major conflicts and international events of the past 25 years, including the wars in Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, and Kosovo; the Arab Spring; and the genocide in Rwanda. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and Granta. Her first book, Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution, was short-listed for the 2012 Guardian First Book Award.

Colvin's life also is the subject of a feature-length film now in theaters, called “A Private War” and starring Rosamund Pike.