CNN’s Alex Marquardt, Ukraine’s Ambassador And Others Urge Support For War Journalists’ Health And Safety
deadline.comUkrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova told a gathering of Washington politicos and media types that the Russian invasion has been a “game changer” in which “the freedom of press and freedom of expression and the freedom of speech suddenly became an existential need.” She was speaking at a fundraiser on Thursday for Reporters Without Borders, which is raising money for journalists, including Ukrainian journalists and international freelancers, who need such things as security equipment and health assistance as they cover the war in Ukraine.
Markarova said of the journalists covering the war, “Really you are as brave and as heroic as all the Ukrainians as all the Ukrainians who are fighting.
It takes a lot of courage and it takes a lot of values and principles to leave your comfortable life here. There are a lot of stories to choose from.
But we’re very grateful to everyone who chooses this story, because the story is very important.” Among those who just returned was CNN’s Alex Marquardt, who got back last weekend from his second assignment there since the war began.
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