Penny Marshall (UK journalist)

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Penny Marshall is a British journalist with ITV News.

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[edit] Omarska

In the summer of 1992 Marshall, together with Channel 4 News' Ian Williams, were the first television journalists to uncover the Serb-run detention camps in Bosnia. Their subsequent reports and pictures, shown throughout the world, generated an international outcry. The report won the International News Award for 1992 at the Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards.

She has received Gold and Silver Medals at the Annual Film & Television Festival of New York, and joint top prize - with Ian Williams - in the News and Actuality category from BAFTA. They also received a special award from Broadcast Magazine. In addition they jointly won an Emmy, one of America 's top television awards, for Outstanding Investigative Journalism at last year's News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

[edit] Fraud Accusations

LM Magazine, formerly Living Marxism, in an article by Thomas Deichmann, claimed that the video tapes, which have brought international recognition to Marshall and Williams, were fraudulent. As the article said "There was no barbed wire fence surrounding Trnopolje camp. It was not a prison, and certainly not a 'concentration camp', but a collection centre for refugees, many of whom went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished. The barbed wire in the picture is not around the Bosnian Muslims; it is around the cameraman and the journalists." [1]

In March 2000, Penny Marshall and fellow reporter Ian Williams were each awarded £150,000, and ITN won £75,000, from LM Magazine in a High Court libel case. [2]

In a 2006 interview, Noam Chomsky argued that the LM critique of the most publicized photograph from the footage was probably correct, and that the only reason why LM lost the libel case was because it could not prove that ITN had malicious intentions while publishing the story, which was required by the British libel law. As a very small newspaper, LM did not have enough money to fight batteries of lawyers representing ITN media corporation. [3]

According to the same interview, a highly respected Western media commentator Phillip Knightley analyzed the photograph and said that it was probably misinterpreted.

[edit] Career

Penny Marshall joined ITN in 1985 as a Production Trainee, becoming a General Reporter in 1989.

Penny Marshall is married to fellow ITN journalist Tim Ewart, a former BBC Newsroom South East presenter and now ITV News'Correspondent.

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