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Marcus was the Independent's Balkans correspondent from 1988 to 1994,
covering the collapse of the former Yugoslavia and the fall of communism
in Romania and Bulgaria. From 1995 to 2000, he was assistant foreign editor
of The Independent.
After leaving the paper in 2000 to pursue a freelance writing career,
he wrote a book on the religious divisions in Ireland, 'Ireland's Holy
Wars', published by Yale University Press. He is also the author of two
other Yale books, 'Croatia, A Nation Forged in War' and 'The Celts, Europe's
Vanishing Civilisation'.
Marcus joined the IWPR Balkans project in 2004
and since 2005 has worked as editor/trainer for the Balkan Investigative
Reporting Network, BIRN.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
