Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012

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Shortly after David Hoffman, then the foreign editor of The Washington Post, overcame all of his better judgement and decided to send my 23-year-old intern self to Baghdad, he told me to go talk to Anthony Shadid, who was in Washington on book leave. It’s safe to say this prospect terrified me more than the actual trip to Iraq.

GOOD managing editor Megan Greenwell remembers Anthony Shadid, who taught her how to write about the war in Iraq when they were colleagues at The Washington Post. 

Anthony Shadid was one of the great ones, and one of the best, most fearless reporters on the Iraq war. Go back through the WaPo archives, and you’ll find he was consistently right about that mess of a war; he’ll be missed.

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    Weekend reading for any of us still wondering why we were in Iraq.
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    Seconded. His life was extraordinary. RIP.
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    Also see this storify of tweets following Shadid’s death by the social media editor at NBC news.
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    Anthony Shadid was one of the great ones, and one of the best, most fearless reporters on the Iraq war. Go back through...
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    “Anthony Shadid, one of the most incisive and honored foreign correspondents of his generation, died Thursday in Syria,...
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