“We are on as high alert as a news organization can be.' TV news bringing Russian invasion of Ukraine to living rooms and mobile devices
CNN’s Clarissa Ward has been in war zones throughout her career as a foreign correspondent. But reporting from an underground subway platform in a large European city filled with Ukrainians seeking refuge from a possible air strike was a throwback to another era.
“Because it was so familiar and it’s Europe, it was more striking,” said Ward, who has done tours throughout the Middle East. “Nobody believed this was going to happen, and there is profound shock. No one here has ever experienced anything like this.
While they don’t get the attention received by Fox News Channel’s stars who talk politics, Jennifer Griffin, the network’s senior national security correspondent, and veteran international reporters Steve Harrigan, Mike Tobin and Greg Palkot are a long-running team with experience in covering the region and logging significant airtime.
The unpredictability of the events led network news operations to keep their cameras fixed on locations throughout Ukraine. With the possibility of an attack at any time, several of them used “squeeze backs” during their commercial breaks to run scheduled spots in an adjacent box without interrupting the feed.
But the networks are putting some business considerations aside as they present the grim and dangerous story that is headed into uncharted territory.
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