Tributes to Anthony Shadid, in Video and in Writing February 17, 2012, 10:49 pm As part of a tribute to Anthony Shadid, who died on Thursday while working in Syria, New York Times video producers have compiled his dispatches since 2010, which include reporting from Baghdad, Cairo, Tripoli and other locations. Watch the full video. In addition, Mr. Shadid's colleagues, friends and readers have shared their remembrances in a special collection. Bill Keller, a columnist and former executive editor of The Times, writes: First, he understood the basic rule of reporting: always go. He went to places that were inaccessible and dangerous and miserable - not as a daredevil or adrenaline junkie, not recklessly, often reluctantly, always with the most meticulous and careful planning - but he knew you had to be there. You had to see it. It's nice that people call him a poet, but poets can write around the holes in a story. Anthony was first and foremost a witness - an incomparable, reliable witness. Second, he was a sweetheart. He was the kind of colleague - Michael Slackman, deputy foreign editor, reminded me this morning - who would translate for his less fluent competitors. He was the kind of guy - Fernanda Santos, another Times reporter, reminded me - who would swap child-rearing stories with a colleague he barely knew. And I have to think that quality - call it empathy - was the key to his ability to get under the skin of complicated societies and do them justice. Read all of the remembrances, and an article on Tunisia's Islamists that Mr. Shadid wrote before his death. It appears in Saturday's Times.