His powerful speech, The Truths We Tell: Reporting on Faith, War and the Fate of Iraq, conveys Shadid’s commitment to the highest ideals of journalism. In December 2010, Shadid gave the inaugural CJE ethics lecture. Asked once what he missed most from his time in Madison, Shadid smiled and answered, “The Cardinal, of course.” He returned regularly to give guest lectures and generously mentored students even while he was reporting abroad. Shadid was passionate about staying connected with the J-School and The Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper that gave him his start in journalism. His last book, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a lost Middle East, was published in Spring 2012. It was also a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Night Draws Near won the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Issues and the Ron Ridenhour Book Prize.
His second book, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War, was published in September 2005.
In 1997, Shadid was awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club for his work on “Islam’s Challenge.” The four-part series, published by the AP in December 1996, formed the basis of his book, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam, published in December 2000. He has also received the Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting & Analysis onForeign Affairs (2009), the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ award for deadline writing (2004), the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award for best newspâper or wire service reporting from abroad (2004) and the George Polk Award for foreign reporting (2003).
In 2007, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Lebanon and the war there with Israel. He won the Pulitzer Prize again in 2010 for his coverâge of Iraq as the United States began its withdrawal. invasion of Iraq and the occupation that followed.
Shadid won the Pulitzer Prize for international Reporting in 2004 for his coverâge of the U.S. 26, 2012 The pain and allure of departure, more than the satisfaction of arrival, run through the stories told in House of Stone, Anthony Shadid’s elegiac, heartbreaking memoir of the. “The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes, when we write small to say something big.” -Anthony Shadid in his lecture, The Truths We Tell: Reporting on Faith, War and the Fate of Iraq Shadid sat on the ethics center’s advisory board and strongly supported its efforts to promote public interest journalism and to stimulate discussion about journalism ethics. The Washington Posts Anthony Shadid also went to war in Iraq although he was neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his courageous and insightful foreign correspondence. Used Very Good (1 available) Former library book used book that is in excellent condition.A UW-Madison graduate, Anthony Shadid died in 2012 while crossing the Syrian border on a reporting assignment for the New York Times.
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