Noel Marie Fletcher is an award-winning author, career journalist and photographer in Washington, D.C.

She started her news career in California and moved to Hong Kong where she covered the High Court for HongKong Standard and then became a foreign correspondent for The Journal of Commerce, America’s oldest daily business paper. She traveled through Asia and was posted to Beijing as China Correspondent. Noel Marie is a founding member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China and has written extensively for newspapers, magazines and wire services. In 2017, she briefly filled in as Berlin bureau chief for The Times (London) before moving to DC to cover policy, write books, enjoy photography and volunteer in leadership roles for several organizations.

She is active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Press Club, and a chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association chapter. She also is a regular judge in the annual IBPA Book Awards competition for the Independent Book Publishers Association. She has a B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University and completed Master’s in Journalism coursework at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia. In 2023, she received a Vivian Award for her volunteerism in as vice chair of the photography committee at the National Press Club. She is the author of several books; three have won awards. Her most recent book “Reporting the Nuremberg Trials: How Journalists Covered Live Nazi Trials and Executions” won a national 1^st Place Nonfiction History Book Award in 2025 from National Federation of Press Women.