Trey Yingst’s Latest Job for Fox News Takes Him to War on Home Front
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Trey Yingst’s home has become his office. Yingst, a foreign correspondent who calls Israel his home when he isn’t traveling the globe for Fox News Channel, was in his apartment a little over a week ago when he got word of horrible things happening near the country’s border with Gaza.
Many people would likely move away from that area but it’s Yingst’s job to move toward such hot spots. “I was going to go to the beach that day,” Yingst recalls.
For a large number of U.S. viewers, Yingst, 30 years old, is one of the primary storytellers of the current conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization, and is likely to be so for the next several weeks, if not more.
While CNN often sees a spike in viewership during matters of global import, Fox News overall viewership over the past week was bigger than either that of CNN or MSNBC during breaking-news coverage of the horrific events. “My goal in doing all of this is to make people care,” he says during a recent phone conversation. “Our job is to inform people, educate people, hold those in power accountable, and it is to tell an accurate picture of what’s taking place.
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