Andrew Beaujon
Oct. 10, 2012
10:22 am
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Andrew Beaujon
June 26, 2012
8:58 am
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The Washington Post
Ed Shadid doesn't know the name of the person who allegedly overheard his cousin,
deceased New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, argue with editors about returning to Syria. And so far he's
the only member of Anthony Shadid’s family who
publicly blames The New York Times for the reporter’s death. It doesn’t look like he’s getting company anytime soon.
The Los Angeles Times' Matt Pearce tries to track down other family members closer to the information.
- The unnamed sister-in-law who supposedly overheard the phone argument didn't return an email from the Times.
- Anthony's brother David: “I am sorry, I am not going to comment on this story in any way"
- Anthony's widow Nada Bakri didn't return a phone call, but she did tweet a statement that says she does "not approve of and will not be a part of any public discussion of Anthony's passing."
Moreover, Tyler Hicks, who accompanied Shadid on his last story, told Pearce "We both campaigned very hard to go on this assignment."
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Steve Myers
June 25, 2012
5:27 pm
Politico | Gawker
A cousin of the late New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid is claiming that Shadid was unhappy with the arrangements for his trip to Syria, and that Shadid told his wife that if he died on the trip, it would be the Times' fault. Politico's
Dylan Byers initially reported what Ed Shadid said in a speech Saturday night to the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and
Gawker's John Cook got more details in an interview. The video of the speech has also
been posted online.
According to Ed Shadid, a security advisor for the Times "forbade" Shadid from entering Syria in December because it was too dangerous. A few months later, after CNN had gained access to a rebel stronghold, Shadid's editors told him to go, Ed Shadid said. The night before he was to leave, "the plans started to fall apart," and
he got into an argument with his editors, according to his cousin.
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Julie Moos
Mar. 26, 2012
4:35 pm
Ebony Marshman was so inspired by Anthony Shadid's work that she painted a portrait of him that was soon discovered by his widow, who requested a copy from the artist. Instead, Marshman will give Nada Bakri the original.
Marshman mixed several photographs of Shadid to create a painting that is on display until the end of the month at Western Kentucky University, where she is a student. “Portrait of a Man with Kind Eyes” got its name from the warmth Marshman saw when The New York Times correspondent was interviewed
after being freed from Libya a year ago, where he was held captive with three other journalists. He
died in Syria last month while on assignment for The New York Times.
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Mar. 2, 2012
8:31 am
Buddy Shadid on son Anthony’s memoir: ‘When he wrote, it was like poetry’
Buddy Shadid is trying to get through the book, but is so overcome with emotion when he looks at his son’s words that he can read only a few pages at once.
They talked about the book often. “He wanted to please me and he would frame it in a way I would like,” he said.
“Every time I read a line, it brings back a memory.”
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Juliana Keeping in The Oklahoman
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 22, 2012
8:04 am
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Julie Moos
Feb. 17, 2012
5:08 pm
Capital New York | Women's Wear Daily | New York Times
Anthony Shadid's final story for The New York Times has been published. With a Tunis dateline, here's how
the story begins:
The epiphany of Said Ferjani came after his poor childhood in a pious town in Tunisia, after a religious renaissance a generation ago awakened his intellect, after he plotted a coup and a torturer broke his back, and after he fled to Britain to join other Islamists seeking asylum on a passport he had borrowed from a friend.
Twenty-two years later, when Mr. Ferjani returned home, he understood the task at hand: building a democracy, led by Islamists, that would be a model for the Arab world.
“This is our test,” he said.
After a newsroom meeting Friday afternoon to mourn the foreign correspondent who died unexpectedly Thursday in Syria, executive editor Jill Abramson headed to Beirut, according to Joe Pompeo. Shadid lived in Beirut, where his wife is also a reporter for the Times.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 17, 2012
1:51 pm
The New York Times
Anthony Shadid's obituary in The New York Times is a marvel of the form, a remarkably complete sketch of Shadid's very full life, his career moves, even his writing style in just 843 words. You can't help but admire the economy of this Margalit Fox paragraph:
Mr. Shadid’s hiring by The Times at the end of 2009 was widely considered a coup for the newspaper, for he had been esteemed throughout his career as an intrepid reporter, a keen observer, an insightful analyst and a lyrical stylist. Much of his work centered on ordinary people who had been forced to pay an extraordinary price for living in the region — or belonging to the religion, ethnic group or social class — that they did.
There's institutional pride, a 13-word encapsulation of Shadid's professional mien, and an astute analysis of how he made all that work in that pair of sentences.
Perhaps more surprising, the piece was written and edited in an hour and a half, by a newsroom in mourning.
Bill McDonald, the Times' obituaries editor, says his desk had nothing ready on Shadid, even though he'd been
captured by forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya last year. "The Libya incident was over before we got to that point," McDonald says. "This was a complete surprise and a complete shock, and we had to mobilize very quickly."
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Roy Peter Clark
Feb. 17, 2012
12:49 pm
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Feb. 17, 2012
12:22 pm
New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid,
who died Thursday of an apparent asthma attack in Syria, dedicated much of his life to reporting from dangerous, war-torn countries.
In 2007, Shadid shared journalism lessons learned in an essay for Poynter's 2007-'08 “Best Newspaper Writing” book. He drew those lessons from his ASNE award-winning story about suffering civilians in Tibnin, Lebanon, which was also a Pulitzer finalist that year. Shadid won Pulitzer Prizes in 2004 and 2010 for international reporting.
Here's what he said.
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