"We're in an era where journalists are routinely targeted and routinely killed,"
"Journalism is equated with death now, in a way that it wasn't when I first started out."
"When I'm in a war zone, that is my focus and that's all I'm doing. ... I go in, I make calculations about the danger, I photograph, I try to tell stories, I go back to the hotel, I file, I try not to get hit in a missile strike,"
"But with kids it's like I can't control when their emotions arise or when their needs arise and it's a full-time thing and it's very hard to do to have a full-time job as a parent."
For 25 years, Lynsey Addario has covered nearly every major conflict and humanitarian crisis of her generation, including Syria, Sudan, and Ukraine. Her assignments expose her to extreme danger: she has been kidnapped twice, thrown out of a car in Pakistan, and ambushed by the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents. The Committee to Protect Journalists estimates 2024 was the deadliest year on record for journalists, and journalists are increasingly targeted and killed. Parenting two young children sometimes proves more challenging than reporting from a war zone because parenting is unpredictable and continuous. Balancing frontline reporting and family life requires constant negotiation, frequent cancellations, and mutual agreements with her husband.
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