Tim Hetherington Quotes

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.