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How do you see journalism?

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We all see reporters and journalists in the field all the time on tv or social media, but do you really ever think about what they went through for this coverage or information? This makes the circumstances and the dangers they face feel distant and nonexistent. But what they face is very very real. While listening to the global news network Al Jazeera with my dad this morning, I learned of an American reporter who was killed in Ukraine yesterday. Hearing this didn't really resonate with me until a few hours later when I was scrolling monotonously through Tic Tock, and saw a video posted by NBC. It was an interview of another reporter in Ukraine who was explaining what had happened to the other recently deceased reporter who he had been with in the warzone. Hearing the horror and details of the incident being explained by the sobbing reporter really made me think about how little we know of the troubles reporters go through to bring us information. With all of the unsettling confli...