The Huffington Post reports: Tim Hetherington didn’t have to die in Libya.
It’s that belief that has led Sebastian Junger, a close friend and colleague of the award-winning photojournalist, to launch Reporters Instructed In Saving Colleagues (RISC), an organization providing freelance journalists with emergency medical training.
Junger began thinking about RISC following Hetherington’s funeral in London, where a combat medic told him that Hetherington — who’d sustained a serious shrapnel wound — may have reached a nearby Misrata hospital alive if someone, perhaps another journalist on the scene, had stopped the bleeding for 10 more minutes. But Hetherington, along with photographer Chris Hondros, died in Libya that day.