UW grad, journalist Anthony Shadid dies of asthma attack

Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and UW-Madison graduate, died Thursday in Syria of an apparent asthma attack. He was 43. Shadid was in Syria on a reporting assignment. The New York Times reported Times photographer Tyler Hicks was with him and carried his body to Turkey. A 1990 UW-Madison graduate, Shadid won two Pulitzer Prizes for the Washington Post, in 2004 for international reporting and in 2010 for his coverage of Iraq. He was with The New York Times since 2009.