Ukraine-Russia Crisis

“The list of every reporter in Ukraine and Russia is too long to name here,” the publisher wrote. “But all should be saluted.”

Michelle Ross-Stanton has spent months investigating the March 14 attack on her husband, Pierre Zakrzewski, and his colleagues outside Kyiv.

Just a few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir was the first American correspondent to interview the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. So Muir thought that it was time to bring what was happening in the country back to the forefront. Over what was Labor Day weekend in the U.S., the ABC anchor returned to Ukraine for an interview with Zelensky.

French news broadcaster BFM TV said Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was killed as he was “covering a humanitarian operation in an armored vehicle” near Sievierodonetsk, a key city in the Donbas region that is being hotly contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces. He had worked for six years for the French television channel.

Russians using smart TVs reported seeing something atypical on Monday: A message appeared instead of the usual listing of channels. “The blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of murdered children is on your hands,” read the message that took over their screens. “TV and the authorities are lying. No to war.”

According to Russian news media, the worst atrocities in Ukraine are staged. We analyzed more than 50 hours of television to show Russia’s version of events.

U.S. media businesses, already a prime target for cyber criminals, face heightened danger from Russian hackers and those sympathetic to their cause, especially as pressures from sanctions and the cost of the Ukraine invasion mount.

The war changed this week from a media perspective, which is how most people outside of Ukraine experience it. Before, events had been seen primarily from a slight distance — fiery explosions caught on camera or drone-eyed views of burned-out buildings. Now, with the Ukrainian army retaking control of villages near Kyiv that had been brutalized by Russian soldiers, journalists are capturing the aftermath of horrific violence at close range — of dead bodies bound, tortured and burned.

The broadcasters are writing a new playbook for live coverage of a war where embedding isn’t an option, connectivity can be disrupted at any time and safety is a constant concern. Above: TVU Networks has used three cellular carriers in support of customers covering the conflict in Ukraine: KyivStar, Vodafone and LifeCell.

In the hours after three journalists working for Fox News in Ukraine took fire on March 14, staffers from rival news organization CNN stepped up to assist the cable network. Clarissa Ward, chief international correspondent for CNN, and Trey Yingst, a foreign correspondent for Fox News, worked in CNN’s makeshift newsroom in a Kyiv hotel suite, calling morgues and hospitals to track down Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, a consultant for the network, according to people familiar with the situation. In addition, journalists are coordinating on an array of challenges, including travel routes, evacuation plans and access to supplies.

As the U.S.-funded broadcaster is forced to shut most of its Russian operations, its Web traffic indicates that Russian people are eagerly consuming its stories.

Media agency Magna Global reduced its forecast for U.S. advertising spending because of the from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Magna now expects U.S. ad spending to increase 11.5% to $320 billion. Its original forecast was for 12.6% growth. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated supply chain issues and inflationary pressures.

A reporter and videographer from WSEE Erie, Pa.,  are in Poland filing reports for Lilly Broadcasting’s TV stations in Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan and the Caribbean. In the five days they’ve been in Poland, it’s been nonstop, working like around the clock, they say.

Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter are hastily rewriting their rules on hate, violence and propaganda in Ukraine — and setting precedents they might regret

Benjamin Hall, the Fox News reporter who was injured when the vehicle he and colleagues were traveling in just outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, was struck by fire, has been transferred to a hospital in Texas. Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott updated staff on Hall on Friday morning, revealing he had undergone “multiple surgeries.” Hall was seriously injured in the incident that left two of his colleagues dead.

The BBC World Service has sought and will receive £4.1 million ($5.4 million) in additional funding to counter disinformation around the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The emergency funding would to help the BBC “continue bringing independent, impartial and accurate news to people in Ukraine and Russia in the face of increased propaganda from the Russian state,” the U.K. government said in a statement.

Some conservatives have echoed the Kremlin’s misleading claims about the war and vice versa, giving each other’s assertions a sheen of credibility.

Google, one of the few American corporate giants still operating in Russia, is poised to lose one of its biggest footholds in the country as tensions with the Kremlin continue to escalate. Alphabet Inc.’s Google shut its advertising business in Russia while maintaining its popular consumer services, such as YouTube. But the video service has become a significant source of tension with the government.

The biggest U.S. marketers have expanded their efforts to use their commercial marketplace power to combat Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to findings of a new survey from the Association of National Advertisers. The survey, conducted the week of March 14, finds that 71% of ANA member respondents currently doing business in Russia say they have suspended or reduce their media spending in Russia, which is more than double the 31% who said so when the ANA last surveyed them after the Feb. 24 invasion.

It’s pure hell for the journalists who are there covering the war. But we will all be worse off if they are forced to leave.

The Russian state television journalist who took a dramatic stand against President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine during a live broadcast says it was “impossible to stay silent” and that she wants the world to know that many Russians are against the invasion. Marina Ovsyannikova told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday that many Russian journalists see a disconnect between reality and what is presented on the country’s television channels, and that even her mother has been “brainwashed” by state propaganda.

As news teams brace for a long conflict, some reporters will rotate out. ‘You start making mistakes when you get tired …. You can’t just constantly keep doing that forever.’

A veteran videographer and a 24-year-old Ukrainian journalist working for Fox News were both killed when their vehicle came under fire outside of Kyiv, the network said on Tuesday. Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova were traveling Monday in Horenka with Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall, who remains hospitalized. “Today is a heartbreaking day for Fox News Media and for all journalists risking their lives to deliver the news,” the network’s CEO, Suzanne Scott. said in a staff memo.