Weeks after the forced resignation of longtime president Jeff Zucker, CNN's Ukraine coverage has brought the network back to its roots—and shifted the industry narrative. JoePompeo reports:
If you’ve watched CNN over the past six weeks, chances are you’ve seen a live shot from the InterContinental Kyiv, whose luxury belies the horrors that have unfolded just miles away. Built in 2009 and originally geared toward globe-trotting businessmen and government officials, the 11-story, five-star hotel is now a nerve center for foreign media, which make up about 90% of its guests.
Over the past two months, CNN has put up dozens of journalists and other staffers at the InterContinental, which gives you a sense of the organization’s footprint in Ukraine, second only to that of the BBC. The network has maintained an on-the-ground workforce of about 80 people, rotating in and out, crisscrossing the country with their “LiveU unit” backpacks and lightweight Osmo cameras, resorting to dinners of Cheetos and Kinder Eggs, and sometimes falling ill along the way.
CNN and other outlets are planning to be there for the long haul. Apart from Kyiv, the network is maintaining a substantial presence in the western city of Lviv, farther from the front lines, where it’s possible to broadcast live for hours on end. Nearly a dozen CNN anchors have hosted shows from Ukraine, including Amanpour,Anderson Cooper,
who told me, “You can intellectually understand the trauma that people are going through, but until you’ve sat in a hospital with a child who has cancer, whose treatment is being interrupted because they have to be shuttled down into basements throughout the night because of air raid sirens—it just doesn’t compare to watching something from afar.”Clarissa Ward
for more than seven weeks, one of her most protracted foreign assignments. Kiley from January 8 to March 27, with a five-day detour in Abu Dhabi to cover drone attacks launched by Houthi rebels. “I’ve covered civil wars all over Africa, the Iraq War—you name it, I’ve covered it,” said Kiley, who’s taking a much-needed break before heading back to Ukraine. “If you’re dealing with the Taliban, you know what weaponry they’ve got. I know the range of an 81-millimeter mortar.
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