My friend was killed for telling you the truth. Now the powerful are even more desperate to silence us | Janine di Giovanni

My friend was killed for telling you the truth. Now the powerful are even more desperate to silence us | Janine di Giovanni

Murderous governments and armed groups always considered reporters like Marie Colvin a nuisance – now they see them as legitimate targets A friend wrote to me last week to tell me that my name appeared in the Epstein files. “But it’s for a good cause,” he wrote. “Nothing sinister.” In 2012, shortly after my friend and colleague Marie Colvin was killed in Homs, Syria, I met with the now-disgraced Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen. Rød-Larsen was a renowned fixer who had negotiated the 1993 O...

By Janine di Giovanni