Women in the War Zone: Clarissa Ward, Martha Raddatz, Lyse Doucet and More Correspondents on Covering Ukraine From the Ground
variety.comUkraine, reporters in the field face a daily tightrope walk between getting the story and potentially getting killed. At least 14 journalists have already died in the conflict, which broke out when Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Feb.
24.“It is something you’re constantly grappling with, and trying to set boundaries to ensure that it doesn’t get out of hand, because in a situation like this, where you have a massive war unfolding, you do feel, understandably, as a journalist like you want to be here every step of the way,” Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent, tells Variety. “If I’m being really honest, I also feel that there are situations where, as a mother, there’s a limit to how long I can be away from my kids.
It is a real struggle, and I don’t want to try to sugarcoat it and pretend like it’s some easy thing to go gallivanting off to some war zone and leave your little ones behind.
It’s really painful and really tough.” Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford, who spent almost a decade covering Syria before traveling to Ukraine in February, says figuring out how to balance the risk “is the million-dollar question.
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