The Wall Street Journal reports:

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.

Ms. Ward and Mr. Yingst called Ukrainian military officials and passed along information about their last known whereabouts, the people said. Security personnel from NBC and Sky News also offered to help Fox News during that period, they said. Later, Fox News’s security team received a tip that their remains had been located, some of the people said.

A third Fox News journalist, foreign-affairs correspondent Benjamin Hall, survived and had already been taken to the hospital with severe injuries.

The tragedy underscored the tremendous risks journalists face in covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a conflict that has resulted in the deaths of five media workers in the past month, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The event also demonstrated the teamwork and coordination among news organizations with staffers on the ground. [Continue reading…]