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Beirut Gathering Pays Tribute

AmericanDreamer — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:33:50 +0000

In reply to Pulitzer-winning reporter Anthony Shadid dies at work in Syria

Beirut Gathering Pays Tribute to Anthony Shadid, Alice Fordham, Washington Post yesterday's edition

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/anthony-shadid-buried-in-beirut/2012/02/21/gIQAjpNqRR_blog.html

(registration to access the online version may be required. If so, it is free of charge on my last understanding.)

It was also announced that he will be honored posthumously with a George Polk Award in Journalism (Associated Press, February 17):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/polk-journalism-awards-announce-posthumous-honor-for-anthony-shadid/2012/02/17/gIQAlrzzJR_story.html

Marie Colvin's final

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:18:45 +0000

In reply to And two others fall, victims

Marie Colvin's final dispatches from Homs:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/american-reporter-marie-colv...

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Dave Remnick @ The New Yorker on Marie Colvin:

[...] Like Shadid, Colvin devoted her life—and gave her life—for the proposition that the truth of history demands witnesses. Her death, like Shadid’s, like that of so many others, is yet another reminder, as if any more were needed, that experience in the field is no shelter from disaster. In November 2010, at St. Bride’s Church in London, Colvin was one of the speakers at a service called Truth At All Costs to honor the hundreds of journalists who have died in war zones over the years. The Duchess of Cornwall was there. As ever, Colvin spoke best for herself as she described the essential place of war reporting and the inner calculus of risk. Here are a few paragraphs, but I would hope you will read it all: [...]

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/postscript-marie-colvin-1957-2012.html#ixzz1n9hu7yBg

And two others fall, victims

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:42:34 +0000

In reply to Pulitzer-winning reporter Anthony Shadid dies at work in Syria

And two others fall, victims of an attack that apparently was deliberately targeted at a makeshift media center:

http://news.yahoo.com/battle-homs-war-reporting-legend-marie-colvin-killed-101000067.html

High, and surely deserved

AmericanDreamer — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:39:56 +0000

In reply to A major loss for quality

High, and surely deserved praise, indeed. Coll and Filkins are two I have enormous respect for in particular.

Typical Lisbeth Salander-like (hope you don't mind me throwing in that reference--my wife and I have recently seen both the currently playing and original Swedish versions of The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, and watching the scenes with Lisbeth in front of her laptop or in the library getting to the bottom of whatever she chooses to, I thought of you and wondered who would win a hypothetical research contest between the two of you. Though what you share here surely is all legal.) research excellence on your part, a, though I suspect these were not some of your hardest finds. Thanks for sharing and hope you're well.

A major loss for quality

artappraiser — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:29:11 +0000

In reply to A sad reminder of the risks

A major loss for quality journalism as well as his family, friends and the acquaintances all over the Mideast and the world.

Here are his main competitors all basically admitting that his talent, skill and accomplishments in coverage were superior to theirs:

Dexter Filkins: Keeping Up with Shadid
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/keeping-up-with-s...

Steve Coll: Postscript: Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/postscript-anthon...

Jon Lee Anderson: Remembering Anthony Shadid
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/remembering-antho...

George Packer: Anthony Shadid’s Passion
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2012/02/anthony-shadi...

Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Anthony Shadid, the ‘most gifted foreign correspondent in a generation’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/anthony-shadid-the-most-gi...

A sad reminder of the risks

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:07:30 +0000

In reply to Pulitzer-winning reporter Anthony Shadid dies at work in Syria

A sad reminder of the risks great journalists will take to try to do their jobs. What a shame, and loss.

See Twitter

artappraiser — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:42:23 +0000

In reply to Pulitzer-winning reporter Anthony Shadid dies at work in Syria

See Twitter #AnthonyShadid

(there's a sampling at The Lede)

and

the Washington Post:

Author, journalist Anthony Shadid dies while covering Syria insurrection

Paul Farhi and Mary Beth Sheridan

Prize-winning correspondent, 43, “changed way we saw Iraq, Egypt, Syria over last, crucial decade.”

Colleagues recall Shadid as extraordinary

Read work submitted for Shadid’s two Pulitzers

Shadid regarded as one of industry’s best