Finding the right tools to cover Mariupol without reporters on the ground
CNN
After weeks of on-scene, live coverage of the war in Ukraine by some of the world's best journalists, news platforms have been faced in recent days with the challenge of reporting on one of the most intense moments of the brutal conflict, the siege of Mariupol, with little or no direct access to it.
"This is a throwback to earlier days when we didn't have live cameras everywhere," Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, said of the challenges news organizations faced this week as they tried to cover a second ultimatum from Russia for Ukrainian troops in the city to surrender.
Ukranian troops and a number of civilians, reportedly in the hundreds, remained surrounded at a steel plant in the city Wednesday morning as another Russian deadline passed. On Thursday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said "thousands" of civilians remain blockaded inside Mariupol.
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