Lindsey Hilsum

Lindsey Hilsum is a British journalist and author born in 1958. She is International Editor at Channel 4 News and has reported from conflict zones around the world for over thirty years, including Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. She was one of the few reporters in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and has covered the Arab Spring and its aftermath from its beginning. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin (2018, Chatto & Windus) is her biography of the Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin (1956–2012), who was killed in Homs, Syria. Drawing on Colvin's notebooks, letters, and the accounts of those who knew her, Hilsum produces a portrait that is both admiring and unflinching about Colvin's obsessions. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography in 2018. Hilsum is the author of Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution (2012) and has been named Reporter of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards.