One of the biggest stories of Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Shadid’s life is the one he never wrote. In March 2002, while covering the increasing violence in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Shadid was shot in the left shoulder. The bullet damaged some of his vertebrae before exiting his right shoulder, and instead of turning […]
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Anthony Shadid reported dead in Syria
Times photographer Tyler Hicks reportedly carried Shadid’s body back into Turkey from Syria, where they had been gathering information for a week. The pair had not disclosed their assignment to the Syrian government, which maintains strict control on the activity of journalists within their borders. Hicks reportedly performed CPR for half an hour in an […]