Penny Marshall (UK journalist)
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Penny Marshall is a British journalist with ITV News.
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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.
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. [1] LM Magazine, formerly Living Marxism, claimed they had faked pictures of Bosnian Serb war crimes in an article by Thomas Deichmann. [2]
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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.
