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Two UW graduates among 4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya

Various media, including the New York Times, are reporting this afternoon that four New York Times journalists are missing in Libya.

Two of the missing journalists are University of Wisconsin graduates. They are Anthony Shadid, a former Washington Post reporter who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of U.S. military action in Iraq, and Lynsey Addario, a photojournalist who received a 2009 “genius award” recipient from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.