This image released by Fox News Channel shows cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski working with colleagues, Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan and Jerusalem-based senior producer Jonat Frilling, in the background in Kyiv. Zakrzewski died in Ukraine on Monday, March 14, 2022, when the vehicle he was traveling in caught fire.
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- Fox News video journalist dies after his vehicle catches fire in Ukraine
- Pierre Zakarzewski, 55, covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria for Fox
- Zakrzewski, who lives in London, was the second journalist killed in Ukraine in two days.
A Fox News video reporter died in Ukraine while traveling with another reporter outside Kyiv, the network said on Tuesday.
The network said in a memo to employees that the slain videographer, 55-year-old Pierre Zakarzewski, had covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria for Fox.
“Her passion and talent as a journalist was unmatched,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in the memo.
The network said reporter Benjamin Hall has been hospitalized since Monday after his vehicle hit Horenka.
Zakrzewski, who lives in London, was the second journalist killed in Ukraine in two days. Brent Reynaud, a documentary filmmaker and another veteran covering war zones, died on Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle.
Scott said of Zakarzewski: “His talent was enormous and there was no role he didn’t leap into to help out in the field – from photographer to engineer to editor to producer – and he did it all under tremendous pressure.” . skill.”
Scott said Zakrewski was instrumental in getting Fox freelancers and their families out of Afghanistan after their return to the US last year. He was given the “Unsung Hero” award at an annual employee event. He had been working in Ukraine since last month.
“Today is a heartbreaking day for Fox News Media and all the journalists who risk their lives to deliver news,” Scott said.
On Tuesday in Washington, Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Oksana Markova, thanked journalists in Ukraine.
“Ricking your life to tell the world the truth” is something that Ukraine and the world desperately need, he told the National Press Club.
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