New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under "shock and awe" bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, has died of an apparent asthma attack in Syria while reporting on the uprising against its president.
Shadid, 43, who survived a gunshot wound in the West Bank in 2002 and was captured for six days in Libya last year, was returning with smugglers from Syria to Turkey when he collapsed Thursday, The Times said.
Times photographer Tyler Hicks said that Shadid had suffered one bout of asthma the first night, followed by a more severe attack a week later on the way out of the country.
"I stood next to him and asked if he was OK, and then he collapsed," Hicks said.
Hicks administered CPR but couldn't revive Shadid, he said.
"Anthony was one of our generation's finest reporters," Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger said in a statement.
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