Journalists and Readers Mourn the Loss of Foreign Reporter Anthony Shadid
22.05.12
But most of all they cited his work . Shadid twice won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and was nominated again this year. He was not just a talented reporter with a keen understanding of the region, he was also an fantastic writer who eloquently shared the stories of those living through violent, changing times. Fellow Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote in his remembrance that " he found humanity amid the rubble , compassion in the tableau of violence."
Shadid reported from every hot zone in the Middle East; from the Palestinian territories to Iraq to Tunisia and, most recently, in every battleground of 2011's Arab Spring, often putting his own life on the line to do his job. Shadid survived a shooting on the streets of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in 2003 and just last year was part of a group of four Times journalists (including Hicks) who were arrested in Libya by Muammar Qaddafi’s forces. They were held captive and beaten for six days before finally being released. He returned to Libya after Qaddafi's fall and Shadid's last story for the Times was an in-depth front-pager about the struggle for order among the rival militias trying to replace him.
Source: The Atlantic Wire