RIP Anthony Shadid (and journos killed in Syria)

Re: RIP Anthony Shadid

Similar point Jones made on the Zanesville story.

The information isn't laid out on a buffet for any/every reporter to serve himself. The best reporters are able to get the best information.

What I find interesting, as an outsider, is the ability to both report/investigate and write. I don't know that they necessarily go together naturally. Shadid was a great reporter and writer.

 

Re: RIP Anthony Shadid

New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson on Shadid:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/remembering-anthony-shadid.html

 

Re: RIP Anthony Shadid

Anthony Shadid was the most important American newspaper journalist of the past decade, and he never relented. RIP

 

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I can't imagine the terror of dying from an asthma attack.

 

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I can't imagine how helpless Hicks must have felt.

 

Re: RIP Anthony Shadid

I never met him, but I knew a lot about him because he was a very proud Wisconsin alum, an alum of the Daily Cardinal student newspaper and a devoted Packers fan.

He sent a note to the Daily Cardinal group on Facebook saying, with regrets, that he would not be able to attend their 120th anniversary extravaganza this summer, but he said he'd certainly try to make it to No. 125.

The beauty of this guy was he would have been a star in any era -- 100 years ago through today -- but he was one not because he wrote like Hemingway, but because he did the basics, a hard-working grunt of a reporter who simply wanted to be where the story was, always.

 

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Tyler rode on my crew for a few weeks in Marjeh. He's a beast and I do not doubt this at all. Class act.

 

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http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/114872404.html

Here's a link to a piece Anthony penned about the Packers last year for the Journal Sentinel. What talent, and how cool is it that he went back to the UW campus to share experiences with the community over the years. My heart breaks for his wife and children, and his entire family. RIP.

 

Re: RIP Anthony Shadid

Two more journalists die in Syria, this time in shelling of the building from which they were working.

Marie Colvin, an American reporter for London's Sunday Times, and Remi Ochlik, a French photographer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17124786

 

Re: RIP Anthony Shadid

Here's Remnick on Colvin.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/postscript-marie-colvin-1957-2012.html

 

Haunting words from Marie Colvin at a ceremony in London to honor journalists killed in 2010. A ceremony at which she'll this year be among the honorees.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/22/marie-colvin-our-mission-is-to-speak-truth

 

Wounded French journalist Edith Bouvier pleads for the French government to get her out.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/23/syria-journalist-pleads-evacuation-homs?newsfeed=true

I'm sympathetic, but journalists who go into war zones can't expect their home countries to do anything to rescue them. There is only so much France, or any other country, will do to protect a few citizens.