News about Tim Hetherington

A new campaign has been launched to set up the first memorial to UK journalists killed while working in conflict zones. The organisers plan for a sculpture to be commissioned and located at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. Some 16 UK journalists have been killed carrying out their work since 2000, according to industry website Press Gazette. Among these were Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin (pictured), who was killed in Syria in 2012, and Sky News cameraman Mick Deane, who was shot in Cairo in 2013. Freelance photographer Tim Hetherington lost his life in Libya in 2011, while Lyra McKee was fatally shot in Northern Ireland in 2019.