Kathy Marks is a British journalist best known for her work on ''

The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...

''. Marks grew up in

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, and studied languages. A journalist since 1984, her first job was at the

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news agency; she has also worked for ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fo ...

''. She has covered the

1999 East Timorese crisis The 1999 East Timorese crisis began with attacks by pro-Indonesia militia groups on civilians, and expanded to general violence throughout the country, centred in the capital Dili. The violence intensified after a majority of eligible East Timo ...

, the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, the

insurgency in Aceh The insurgency in Aceh, officially designated the Rebellion in Aceh ( id, Pemberontakan di Aceh) by the Indonesian government, was a conflict fought by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) between 1976 and 2005, with the goal of making the province of ...

(a civil war in Indonesia), the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and the

2006 Yogyakarta earthquake The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake (also known as the Bantul earthquake) occurred at with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (''Damaging''). Several factors led to a disproportionate amount of damage and number of casualt ...

.Simon & Schuster biography
/ref> Marks became ''

''s Asia-Pacific correspondent based in Sydney, Australia, in 1999. Marks covered the

Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 In the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 seven men living on Pitcairn Island faced 55 charges relating to sexual offences against children and young people. The accused represented a third of the island's male population and included Steve C ...

on and off that Pacific island and has written a book on the subject, ''Lost Paradise''.Kathy Marks, ''Lost Paradise,'' New York, London: Free Press, 2009, 328 pages In 2013, she won a

Walkley Award The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...

in the Indigenous Affairs category for her essay 'Channelling Mannalargenna' in '' The Griffith Review''.

Bibliography

*'' Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed'' (2009) *''Faces of Right Wing Extremism'' (2006)

References

External links

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Kathy Marks information on the ''Journalisted'' website
British journalists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Ned Kelly Award winners {{UK-journalist-stub