Western media are pushing to evacuate their journalists from Afghanistan

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The Wall Street Journal said it “successfully evacuated its last workers out of Kabul on Saturday after a week of repeated attempts that included attacks on some of them.”
The Post and The New York Times also helped dozens of employees leave the country earlier in the week. The three newspapers called on the Biden administration for help in the days following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

Many of the people who were evacuated are local performers, guides and journalists often known as “lambs” in the news industry. “Heads of office and security officers from Kabul to Doha to London to DC have been fighting to get these colleagues out of Afghanistan,” CNN’s Brian Stelter said on Sunday.

Stelter reported that CNN silently helped ten Afghan comrades leave the country in recent days.

“Many other newsrooms are working on the same thing,” he said, considering it an emotionally exhausting but necessary task.

Fox News said Sunday that the company has evacuated several Afghan “associates” who helped with the network’s war coverage over the years, along with their families.

CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward recently left Kabul after reporting there for three weeks and working 19-hour days.

“It’s definitely been one of the most intense stories I’ve covered,” Ward told Stelter during an interview from his home in France. He said the Afghan translator working with his team was also traveling to Doha, Qatar.

“Honestly, I can’t even tell you what a relief it was, to be able to be sure she got on that plane and a new life begins,” he said. “It’s petrifying for him. He was on the verge of tears. We tried to comfort him and tell him he would be fine. But thank God he got on that plane.”

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