Fellow Journalists Mourn The Death Of NYT Correspondent Anthony Shadid

Meenal VamburkarFeb 17th, 2012, 4:03 pm
 

Hillary Clinton, according to the New York Times, commented:

He was somebody I always turned to and read very carefully … If I didn’t have the time when I got to the press reporting, I would put it aside and read it, because he had his pulse on what was happening.

This afternoon, Shadid’s father, Buddy Shadid, spoke to CNN. He said his son had always been to “so many hot spots,” but “he always made it out.” In the interview (the full video is embedded below), he went on to say:

I was afraid of bullets and bombs before, and to find out that he died of an asthma attack was a shock. … He was a humble man…he wanted to be a journalist all his life. He wanted to be the best, and he was the best.

The world lost an amazing journalist, and I lost a beloved son.

This, of course, it barely even the tip of the iceberg. The Lede, a New York Times blog, has a great roundup. Or head over to Storify.

In The New Yorker, Steve Coll, who worked at The Washington Post as an editor at the same time Shadid was there, wrote, Shadid “had many gifts and was an exceptionally graceful, easy, and generous man, but among the qualities that distinguished his work was the sheer commitment of it.” In a job interview, Coll writes, Shadid said his goal was to “chronicle in every dimension possible the upheavals in Arab societies that would inevitably follow the September 11th attacks, and to do nothing else, professionally.”

Over at Slate, there’s a Longform guide to some of Shadid’s best work — in a post that states, “few reporters wrote so beautifully about such horrible things.”

Finally, Brian Stelter, a media reporter at the New York Times, shared a quote from an email Anthony Shadid sent. I loved this, and was also immediately saddened by it:

Shadid will truly be missed.

The interview with Shadid’s father, via CNN:

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