Renaud previously won a Peabody Award for his work alongside his brother, Craig, for a Vice News documentary about a school in Chicago, according to the bio on their Web site. The brothers had worked on documentary projects for their company, the Renaud Brothers, from Iran, Afghanistan, Haiti, Egypt, Libya and Mosul.A total of 17 journalists were killed while covering conflicts in Syria (10), Afghanistan (5), and Yemen (2) – compared with 34 last year. “Early reports that he worked for Times circulated because he was wearing a Times press badge that had been issued for an assignment many years ago.” Though he was initially identified as a New York Times journalist, he had not been on assignment for the newspaper at the time of his death, the representative said. Brent Renaud won a Peabody Award for his work alongside his brother. Brent was a talented filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Times over the years,” a New York Times rep told The Post. “We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death. The New York Times issued a statement about Reanud’s death Sunday. The attack comes as Irpin has been the target of heavy shelling by Russian forces. “Outraged Ukranian police officer: ‘Tell America, tell the world, what they did to a journalist.’ “
“Ukranian medics could do nothing to help him by that stage,” she wrote on Twitter. “We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death,” the New York Times said. PBS reporter Jane Ferguson said she saw Renaud’s body on the side of the road under a blanket. Get the latest updates in the Russia-Ukraine conflict with The Post’s live coverage.Īrrendondo said the attackers shot Renaud and that he was forced to leave without his friend in an ambulance.
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The driver turned around, there were two of us. “We crossed a checkpoint, and they started shooting at us. Somebody offered to take us to the other bridge,” Arrendondo told the Italian paper Internazionale from his hospital bed. We were going to film other refugees leaving. “We had crossed the first bridge in Irpin. One of the hurt journalists was US photographer Juan Arredondo, who has worked for the New York Times and National Geographic, the Guardian reported. Two other journalists were injured in the attack, too, and taken to the hospital, Nebitov said. “This is obviously shocking and horrifying, and I’ve just learned about it as I came on to air here, so I will be consulting with my colleagues, will be consulting with Ukrainians, to determine how this happened and then to measure and execute appropriate consequences as a result of it,” Sullivan said during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Russia will face “appropriate consequences” for Renaud’s death, said US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday. Renaud was working on a Times Studios project about refugees when he was attacked, according to a tweet. Nebitov also shared a video of a police officer at the scene with a bloodied man’s body. “Of course, the profession of a journalist is a risk, but US citizen Brent Renaud paid his life for trying to highlight the aggressor’s ingenuity, cruelty and ruthlessness.”
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