Four New York Times journalists who went missing in Libya last week, including two UW-Madison graduates, were released today, according to The New York Times.
Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's son, told ABC News Friday that forces loyal to the embattled ruler captured the journalists after they entered the country illegally from Egypt.
The Wisconsin alumni, Anthony Shadid and Lynsey Addario, and their associates were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats in Libya's capital Tripoli Monday before crossing into Tunisia, according to the Times.
Shadid, a former campus editor at The Daily Cardinal, graduated from UW-Madison with degrees in journalism and political science in 1990.
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Shadid is the Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times. He covered the Egyptian uprising before starting work in Libya in early March.
Addario, who graduated with honors from UW-Madison in 1995, works as a freelance photojournalist for publications including The New York Times, National Geographic and Time Magazine.
Addario was part of the New York Times team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and she received the MacArthur Fellowship, or ""Genius Grant,"" in 2009.
