Shadid once said that some of his favorite years in journalism were spent at the Cardinal. “He’s doing what you imagine yourself doing.” “He’s someone who was the definition of a journalist,” 20-year-old Johnson says. The news hit the Cardinal’s staff hard as they worked to pay homage to the man they consider their hero. He first appeared at the paper on a summer day in the late 1980s carrying an army rucksack containing what appeared to be everything he owned, editor Kayla Johnson writes. On Friday morning, the front page of the Cardinal, the student paper where he once served as editor, featured a picture of a young Shadid. The New York Times also collected messages from Twitter, where there was an outpouring of tribute and emotion. See this collection of Tweets, images and videos assembled by the College of Letters and Science. While stories and tributes immediately appeared worldwide, staff and students remembered Shadid for the legacy he leaves on campus. 16 of an apparent asthma attack while on assignment in Syria for the New York Times. The University of Wisconsin–Madison knew Shadid when he was just a young journalism student on deadline for the Daily Cardinal. The world knew Anthony Shadid as a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the strife-torn Middle East, often at considerable personal risk. Shadid is a UW–Madison alumnus and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. In December 2010, foreign correspondent for the New York Times Anthony Shadid (center) spoke to a group of journalism students in a Vilas Hall classroom.
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