Five years into his Fox News tenure, Trey Yingst is no stranger to covering Middle East conflict from the ground. And now, the Jerusalem-based correspondent in the midst of covering Israel’s new war with terrorist militant organization Hamas. (TVNewser)
Clarissa Ward has covered her fair share of global conflicts. This one’s different. The CNN chief international correspondent is reporting minutes from the Israel-Gaza border when a barrage of rockets suddenly flew past her and her team and into Gaza. (TVNewser)
As far as U.S. TV newsers go, CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil has a unique connection to Israel. Two of his children, along with his ex-wife (their mom), live in Israel, where heinous terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas started early Saturday morning. (TVNewser)
On his first CNN Monday morning editorial call, former BBC director-general and New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson remarked that the network’s coverage of the Hamas-Israel conflict has been “basically great.” (TVNewser)
Since Saturday, networks have been “scrambling”—in the words of one veteran television journalist—to get correspondents and producers to Israel to augment existing personnel or, in some cases, serve as lone representatives. Although most television networks still maintain a presence in Israel, staffing levels have broadly declined in the past two decades. (WaPo)