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    February 17, 2012

Award-Winning New York Times Reporter Dies in Syria

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   wo-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid, a New York Times
   journalist who died in Syria on Thursday, poses in this undated handout
   released on March 21, 2011. Photo: REUTERS
   43 year-old New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid is shown in this
   undated photo released on March 21, 2011. The two-time Pulitzer Prize
   winner died while reporting in Syria on February 16, 2012.

   Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid has died
   while on assignment in Syria for [1]The New York Times.
   The newspaper reported the 43-year-old Shadid suffered a severe asthma
   attack Thursday while preparing to leave Syria, where he spent the past
   week covering opposition forces battling the regime of President Bashar
   al-Assad. A Times photographer traveling with Shadid took the
   reporter's body back to Turkey.
   Shadid, an American of Lebanese descent who was fluid in Arabic, spent
   his two-decade career reporting on the Middle East for the Associated
   Press, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, as well as the Times.
   He won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2004, and
   again in 2010, for his coverage of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation
   of Iraq while working for The Washington Post.
   Shadid's Middle East assignments often put him in danger. He was shot
   in the shoulder in 2002 while covering the Israeli-occupied West Bank,
   and arrested in Libya last year along with two other Times
   correspondents by forces loyal to late dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
   The Times says Shadid and his colleague slipped into Syria with the
   help of smugglers.
   Times executive editor Jill Abramson praised Shadid as a reporter
   "determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle
   East" in an e-mail to the newspaper's staff Thursday.

References

   1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=global-home&adxnnlx=1329483813-Gs0fx8IbHhATrjeBLyc2/Q

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