NEW : `` Reports of my survival may be exaggerated , '' Colvin wrote hours before her death . The letter was written by Colvin's friend and fellow journalist Robert F. Kennedy, who had been covering the war in Vietnam for CBS News since 1968. Colleagues remember longtime reporter Marie Colvin as `` a class act '' Prize-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik , 28 , also dies in shelling .
NEW : `` Reports of my survival may be exaggerated , '' Colvin wrote hours before her death . At least five journalists have now been killed in Syria this year . Colleagues remember longtime reporter Marie Colvin as `` a class act '' Prize-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik , 28 , also dies in shelling .