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Reporters who give their lives to tell the truth

Journalism will kill you but it will keep you alive while you're at it, said one Horace Greeley, 19th century founding editor of The New York Tribune.

It could be the epitaph for brave, beautiful, barmy Marie Colvin, the celebrated foreign correspondent, who was killed by a rocket attack in the besieged Syrian city of Homs yesterday.

One fellow journalist described her as "a real life Katharine Hepburn but braver and funnier". Another, The Herald and Sunday Herald's David Pratt, adds his own tribute on our obituaries page.