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Editor’s note:<\/strong> The following is an excerpt from Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall’s new book “Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Make It Home<\/a>” (Harper, March 14, 2023).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Pentagon<\/i><\/p>\n

Arlington, Virginia March 14, 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin looked down Corridor 9 on the second floor of the Pentagon\u2019s D ring<\/a> and saw a woman running straight at her. Jen knew the woman\u2014Sylvie Lanteaume, longtime national correspondent for the global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP)\u2014but didn\u2019t know why she seemed in such a rush. Not that it was all that unusual; Jen had hurried down more than her share of Pentagon corridors, driven by tight deadlines and breaking news.<\/p>\n

“Is your team OK?” Lanteaume asked when she finally reached her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BENJAMIN HALL REFLECTS ONE YEAR AFTER DEADLY UKRAINE ATTACK ON FOX NEWS JOURNALISTS: ‘REAL MIXED EMOTIONS’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Jen Griffin was in the middle of preparing a report about the war in Ukraine<\/a>, based on pointed questions she had just finished putting to John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesperson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It had been a stressful morning, as all the mornings and afternoons and nights had been since Russia invaded Ukraine 18 days earlier. Fox News had several employees on the ground in Ukraine, and there was a constant swirl of concern and activity around them, but Jen had heard nothing about anything happening to anyone. The look on Lanteaume\u2019s face, however, told her that something was wrong.<\/p>\n

“Ben and Pierre may have been hit,” Lanteaume said.<\/p>\n

Pierre Zakrzewski<\/a> was one of the cameramen working for Fox News in Ukraine. Ben, of course, was me.<\/p>\n

Immediately, Jen slipped into an operational mindset. “My brain goes a mile a minute and I\u2019m spinning up all these moves, who do I know, who do I call, what can I do,” she explains. “I\u2019d handled traumatic situations before.”<\/p>\n

FOX NEWS\u2019 BENJAMIN HALL URGES VIEWERS TO \u2018NEVER GIVE UP\u2019 IN EMOTIONAL RETURN TO LIVE TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Since joining Fox News in 1999, Jen had been fired on in Gaza while covering the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, reported on the killing of Usama bin Laden<\/a> and the attack on the Benghazi consulate in Libya, and questioned senior military leaders in hazardous war zones around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She was known to be as effective a leader and crisis manager as there is in journalism. “Jennifer is the kind of person who walks into a room,” says someone who has worked with her, “and within five minutes everyone is asking her, \u2018What should we do?\u2019”<\/p>\n

Outside the Fox News media booth at the Pentagon, Jen was on her cell phone within two or three seconds of Lanteaume\u2019s question about her team. She had to find out what had happened, how bad it was, and what she could do to fix it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The first person she called was Jay Wallace. Shortly before noon that day, Nicole Knee, executive assistant to Fox News Media\u2019s President Jay Wallace<\/a>, picked up the phone in her office in the News Corp Building, Fox News\u2019 skyscraper headquarters in midtown Manhattan. It was Greg Headen calling. Greg, head of the Fox News International desk and vice president of News Coverage, asked to speak to Jay.<\/p>\n

Nicole told him Jay was in a meeting and would be out in about ten minutes.<\/p>\n

Two minutes later, Greg called again.<\/p>\n

“I need you to get Jay, it\u2019s urgent,” he said. “I believe our team has been hit in Ukraine.<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Nicole wrote a message on a Post-it and hustled to the second floor conference room, where Jay and Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox News, were in a talent meeting. In the conference room she handed Jay the note.<\/p>\n

Headen called\u2014it\u2019s urgent<\/i>, it read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/almost-died-covering-russias-war-against-ukraine-news-came-colleagues <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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