Kimberly Dozier on war reporting, deadly attacks, and what may happen next in Ukraine

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Kimberly Dozier is one of the only people in the world who can relate to what wounded Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall is going through. When Dozier was reporting for CBS in Baghdad in 2006, she survived a bomb blast that left two colleagues dead. Dozier reflects on the trauma and the road to recovery for wounded war correspondents; describes how journalists are mobilizing to help Hall; and underscores the importance of reporting in conflict zones like Ukraine. She also warns against letting "image fatigue" set in, arguing that "getting tired of the war helps Putin."

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0:00.0	It is the moment every war correspondent fears the most.
0:05.0	A bomb blast or a spray of gunfire, an ambush, an attack.
0:11.0	Suddenly the people who are trying to cover the casualties in the conflict zone are casualties themselves.
0:18.0	What happens in that moment?
0:21.0	And what is the recovery like?
0:24.0	Those are a couple of the questions for this week's Reliable Sources podcast.
0:29.0	Let's cue the music.
0:33.0	I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly podcast is our chance to go more in-depth,
0:37.0	talking about the story behind the story.
0:40.0	And that's what we're going to share today.
0:42.0	It's Thursday, Mark 17th, and several journalists have been killed in Ukraine this week.
0:48.0	Documentary and Brent Renaud was shot dead Sunday.
0:51.0	His colleague Juan Aaron Dondo was injured.
0:55.0	And then on Monday a Fox News crew came under fire outside Kyiv.
0:59.0	At first we only knew that correspondent Benjamin Hall was injured.
1:03.0	We heard that his crew members were missing but did not report that out of deference to Fox.
1:08.0	Out of respect for the families.
1:10.0	Then on Tuesday came the terrible confirmation that veteran Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakshevsky
1:17.0	had been killed in the incident, along with producer Sasha Kuchanova.
1:23.0	Hall suffered severe injuries and he has now been taken out of Ukraine.
1:28.0	And there's a lot we don't know about his condition.
1:32.0	And again, that's a matter for him and his family and the network, given his privacy.
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