The female journalists covering Russia’s punishing invasion of Ukraine are continuing the work of their 20th-century predecessors.
Traditionally, “the coverage was the battlefield, which is important,” said award-winning journalist Becker, a 1970s Cambodian war correspondent. She said it took newcomer FitzGerald to ask, “’OK, what does this mean in terms of the Vietnamese and the villages?’”
Newspaper reporter Marguerite Higgins, who had covered WWII, was ordered out of Korea by a U.S. officer when war broke out in 1950, a decision she successfully appealed to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Higgins earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for her acclaimed reporting, with the jury noting she was"entitled to special consideration by reason of being a woman, since she had to work under unusual dangers.
A new generation is covering Ukraine, with female reporters well-represented among TV, radio, newspapers and online media. Ward, who also has hopscotched across those regions, worked for CBS News prior to joining CNN and, before that, was based in Moscow and Beijing for ABC News. “I think my generation and myself, we were perhaps the last line of the rare woman foreign correspondent,” Amanpour said. In every form of media, it’s “exploded into a very female-friendly profession.”
Female reporters face additional challenges in non-democratic countries and some regions, Amanpour said. “He told me, ‘This is a job for men. Only men can do that,’” recalled the Israeli native. “Then I left, I joined Fox . And on several occasions, including this time, I keep texting him, ‘A job for men? Yeah, right.’”
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