NEW YORK Timescorrespondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has died in eastern Syria after slipping into the country to report on the uprising.
Shadid (43), who was shot in the West Bank in 2002 and kidnapped for six days in Libya last year, apparently died of an asthma attack, the Timessaid.
“Anthony was one of our generation’s finest reporters,” Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger said in a statement.
“He was also an exceptionally kind and generous human being. He brought to his readers an up-close look at the globe’s many war-torn regions, often at great personal risk. We were fortunate to have Anthony as a colleague, and we mourn his death.”
Shadid’s father Buddy said his son had asthma all his life and had medication with him.
An American of Lebanese descent who strove to capture untold stories in Middle East conflicts from Libya to Iraq, Shadid had a wife, Nada Bakri, a son and a daughter.
He had previously worked for the Associated Press, the Washington Postand the Boston Globe.
He won Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting in 2004, when he was with the Post, and in 2010, when with the Times, for his Iraq coverage.
In 2004, the Pulitzer board praised “his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended”.
Shadid was also the author of three books, including House Of Stone: A Memoir Of Home, Family,and A Lost Middle East,in which he wrote about restoring his family's home in Lebanon.
– (AP)