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Fox News’ chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst was forced to seek cover while live on the air in Tel Aviv on Friday while discussing the missile impact of Iran’s retaliation after a war with Israel broke out.

“Ok, there’s just a massive amount of fire coming to Tel Aviv right now. Yaniv, get ready to pull it off the sticks. Get off the sticks. All right, let’s go. Time to go,” Yingst suddenly told his crew as he was on the air with Fox News anchors Sandra Smith and John Roberts.

“Ok, guys, come on. Everyone, move. Everyone, move now. Stay with us. Stay with us. Pick up the gear. Let’s go,” Yingst continued as he and his camera crew drew back for safety while on a hotel balcony. The Fox News reporter was broadcasting amid a barrage of missile fire that rained down on Tel Aviv on Friday night,...

Fox Entertainment’s upfront presentation to advertisers was a star-studded affair that began with Jamie Foxx mocking Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, and ended with Joel McHale popping a bottle of champagne with a prop knife in Gordon Ramsay’s honor.

At one point in between, Tom Brady flubbed a stunt pass to Rob Gronkowski so bad, the ball landed among the Madison Avenue execs. (That was not long after Gronkowski took a shot at his and Brady’s 73-year-old former coach Bill Belichick for dating 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson.)

Held Monday at the Manhattan Center in New York, the event showcasing Fox broadcast network’s 2025-2026 schedule — as well as programming across ad-supported streamer Tubi, Fox Sports and Fox News — kicked off with some jokes from “Beat Shazam” host Foxx.

“It’s been a hectic few weeks for me,” the actor said. “But truly I wanted to be here.

60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, among those accepting press freedom awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association tonight, told attendees that it was especially significant “because it comes now, when our precious First Amendment feels vulnerable and when my precious 60 Minutes is fighting, quite frankly, for our life.”

“I am so proud at 60 Minutes that we are standing and fighting for what is right,” Stahl said.

Either directly or indirectly, Stahl and a number of the honorees at the D.C. event talked of the Trump administration’s attacks on the news media, including efforts to dictate who is a member of the White House press pool and by the president’s references to the press as the “enemy of the people.”

Stahl did not get into the details of what is happening at 60 Minutes: Trump sued the network for $20 billion, claiming that they deceptively edited an...

Not many people who work at Fox News Channel get to push back at Sean Hannity. Lawrence Jones is one of them.

When Jones was just getting started at the Fox Corp.-backed conservative-leaning news outlet, Hannity took him under his wing, and offered advice, even the chance to start appearing on his well-watched primetime program. At first, “I told him no,” Jones recalls, “I’m more libertarian. You’re more conservative. I just want to be able to do what I do.” Hannity told him the pair could use their differences to create interesting segments. “We will make it a thing on TV,” Jones remembers being told.

Lawrence Jones continues to do things differently at Fox News Channel. At 31, he is decidedly younger than many of the network’s best-known personalities. He is one of just a handful of people of color who hold regular posts on the Fox News schedule.

Update: Networks captured the harrowing scenes of explosions in the skies over Tel Aviv today, as Iran launched a missile attack on Israel.

Major news networks quickly switched to reporters in the region for ongoing coverage, while broadcast networks interrupted regular daytime programming for special reports.

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that nearly 200 missiles were fired.

“This attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective,” he told reporters.

He said, “Obviously, this is a significant escalation by Iran, a significant event, and it is equally significant that we were able to step up with Israel and create a situation in which no one was killed in this attack on Israel.”

Sullivan said that they do not know of any deaths in Israel, but they were tracking the reported death of a Palestinian in Jericho in the West Bank.

“We do not know of any damage to aircraft...

Trey Yingst. (Photo courtesy Fox News Media)

(The following is a press release; its contents were not editorially vetted by The Desk.)

Trey Yingst has been promoted to chief foreign correspondent, announced Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott. In this position, Yingst will continue to provide coverage of international issues and events from locations around the globe. Additionally, Yingst was tapped as Fox News Books’ newest author, penning their 12th title “Black Saturday,” a gripping, firsthand account of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack in Israel and now ongoing war that it started in Gaza.

In making the announcement, Scott said, “During major breaking news in every corner of the world, Trey has been the eyes and ears on the ground for our viewers since 2018. Trey’s indefatigable work ethic and dedication in multiple war zones has made him an incredible asset to Fox News and we are extremely proud of his first-class journalism.

Trey Yingst has been promoted to chief foreign correspondent, while he will publish an account of his coverage of the Hamas attacks on Israel for the network’s book imprint.

Yingst joined the network in 2018 as a foreign correspondent. Since then, he has reported on the war in Ukraine and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and he embedded with the Hamas’s Al-Qassam brigades and the Israeli military. He also has interviewed Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of the Haqqani Terror Network, Anas Haqqani.

The book, Black Saturday, will be published by Fox News Books on Oct. 1. Yingst was in Tel Aviv at when the surprise Hamas attacks on Israel started. The book will be “a vivid picture of horrors and violence, matched by acts of courage and humanity that cut through the darkness on the morning of October 7th,” the network said.

Not yet a year after Trey Yingst covered the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks for Fox News from southern Israel, the 30-year-old journalist has been promoted to chief foreign correspondent.

Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced the promotion Tuesday, 10 months after Hamas terrorists stormed across the border to commit unspeakable atrocities — the aftermath of which Yingst saw with his own eyes. He will also write “Black Saturday,” a firsthand account of the experience, for Fox News Books.

“During major breaking news in every corner of the world, Trey has been the eyes and ears on the ground for our viewers since 2018,” Scott said in a statement. “Trey’s indefatigable work ethic and dedication in multiple war zones has made him an incredible asset to Fox News and we are extremely proud of his first-class journalism.”

Now based in Jerusalem, Yingst joined Fox News in August of 2018 as a foreign correspondent where...

The family of a Ukrainian translator and “fixer” filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Fox News and a series of other defendants, claiming that the network was “reckless and negligent” and has tried to conceal key information for what happened when a crew was attacked outside of Kyiv on March 14, 2022.

The lawsuit was filed by Andriy Kuvshynov and Irina Mamaysur, the parents of Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, an independent contractor who was killed in the attack as the network crew was reporting on the latest in the Russian invasion. Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski also was killed, and correspondent Benjamin Hall was seriously wounded.

Another plaintiff in the lawsuit, Shane Thomson, who was employed by Separ, a security firm retained by the network. He claimed that he was scapegoated in the aftermath of the attack.

The lawsuit was filed in New York Supreme Court on Thursday, the second anniversary of the attack.

Kuvshynova...

Days after endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, Elon Musk flew to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour a kibbutz devastated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.

Clad in a very small bulletproof vest, Musk on Monday toured Kfar Aza, one of the sites of Hamas’ attack. Musk called the experience “jarring” in a conversation with Netanyahu on Twitter Spaces shortly after visiting the kibbutz.

Netanyahu highlighted the importance of social media platforms in combating antisemitism, to which Musk replied, “We need to do everything possible to stop the hate.

Amid the mounting tragedy in the Middle East, Fox News and CNN are the early winners in the cable network ratings battle, flexing their on-the-ground foreign reporting muscles, while MSNBC suffered a fall-off at the beginning of the conflict from which it has yet to recover.

In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists in Israel, in which they massacred over 1,400 Israeli citizens, all three cable news channels saw viewership boosts of varying degrees, but Fox and CNN saw the main benefit.

From Oct. 9 to Oct. 15, Fox News scored 1.57 million average total viewers, a 22% increase from the week of Oct. 7. MSNBC secured second place with 766,000 viewers, a 20% decrease for the network from the week prior. CNN came in third, drawing 681,000 viewers, a 13% improvement for the network, according to Nielsen.

Fox News and CNN held on to elevated viewership at the end of October, with both networks ending...

Update: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli soldiers are now in the Gaza strip, in what he characterized as the next stage of the war with Hamas.

Appearing at a press conference that was covered on major news networks, Netanyahu said that ground forces have gone into Gaza, entering the terrritory through the “gates of evil,” with the objective of eradicating Hamas’ military capabilities and to retrieve hostages.

“Our brave troops and combatants are now in Gaza or around Gaza,” he said.

He also pushed back against accusations that Israel was committing war crimes, saying that it was Hamas that was using people as “human shields,” per the BBC. He said that Israeli Defense Forces were taking steps to try to protect civilians.

Netanyahu said that the Israeli troops “are deployed all over’ the Gaza strip.

He said that they decided to expand operations in Gaza in a “very educated” manner.

Fox News broke things down from on the ground in Israel Wednesday, with reporter Trey Yingst predicting the conflict with Hamas would spill into a wider regional war.

Yingst appeared during a lengthy segment that included his stand-up dispatch from the side of a busy highway in the dark of night.

He told “Outnumbered” host Kayleigh McEnany there was a bigger picture brewing in the Middle East after a punctuated period in which, as McEnany described, “you have this ominous warning from Iran about, ‘Time is up.’ You have these kamikaze drones over Al-Asad air base in Iraq. You have that hospital bombing by Islamic Jihad, as we now understand it. This is all in 24 hours. This is feeling like a tinder box.”

“Absolutely,” Yingst replied, pointing out the military trucks and other vehicles including a commerical bus carrying soldiers that passed by behind him toward the Gaza border.

Yingst...

Trey Yingst’s home has become his office.

Yingst, a foreign correspondent who calls Israel his home when he isn’t traveling the globe for Fox News Channel, was in his apartment a little over a week ago when he got word of horrible things happening near the country’s border with Gaza. Many people would likely move away from that area but it’s Yingst’s job to move toward such hot spots.

“I was going to go to the beach that day,” Yingst recalls.

For a large number of U.S. viewers, Yingst, 30 years old, is one of the primary storytellers of the current conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization, and is likely to be so for the next several weeks, if not more. While CNN often sees a spike in viewership during matters of global import, Fox News’ overall viewership over the past week was...

As the scale of the brutality and barbarity of the Hamas attack on Israel became apparent in recent days, U.S. correspondents have struggled at times to keep their composure.

With missiles raining down overhead, the security situation for reporters is precarious, evidenced by the number of live shots where crews are forced to take cover.

And the prospect of the war in Israel has a number of potential new challenges to coverage, particularly if ground troops move into Gaza or a full-scale conflict starts with Hezbollah in the north.

The networks are preparing for a long, protracted war, and they have scrambled to get teams into Israel. Some, like Fox News’ Trey Yingst, already were in Tel Aviv when the attack started early Saturday morning, while other correspondents, like Nic Robertson, have been covering the war in Ukraine recently.

CBS News’ Imtiaz Tyab, who long has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,...

News correspondents are trained to keep their emotions in check, but sometimes a story comes along that makes such a feat all but impossible.

Anderson Cooper, Richard Engel, Holly Wiliams, Trey Yingst, Matt Gutman and Clarissa Ward have been seen on camera in recent days trying to report on a horrific event that is emotionally draining: the invasion of Israel by Hamas militants, replete with violence, hostage-taking and explosive force.

“I’ve seen many challenging things so far,” says Yingst, the Fox News correspondent who is based in Israel and has been reporting on the attack since October 7, when he held forth from his own balcony. He responded to questions via email. “We arrived in the south as Palestinian militants were still killing and kidnapping Israelis. One of the first things I saw was an Israeli soldier die in front of me at an evacuation point near the border. We...

Benjamin Hall, the Fox News Channel correspondent who was injured while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the Fox Corp.-owned network, has managed to get out of the country, according to a memo from Suzanne Scott, Fox News Media’s CEO, issued Wednesday.

“Ben is alert and in good spirits. He is being treated with the best possible care in the world and we are in close contact with his wife and family,” Scott said in the note to staffers.

Fox News has deployed a handful of correspondents around the country, including Trey Yingst and Steve Harrigan.

Hall had been reporting in Horenka, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, with cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and journalist Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova when their vehicle came under fire. Hall had initially been hospitalized in Ukraine. Kuvshynova was working as a freelance consultant for Fox News in the country, helping find sources and gathering information.

Update, 12:43 Pm Pt: Fox News confirmed that Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, who was working as a freelance consultant for the network, was killed along with cameraman Pierre Zakrzewsk when their vehicle was struck by incoming fire near Kyiv.

Correspondent Benjamin Hall was in the field with them and was injured.

Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott sent out a memo to staff and wrote that Kuvshynova, 24, “was helping our crews navigate Kyiv and the surrounding area while gathering information and speaking to sources. She was incredibly talented and spent weeks working directly with our entire team there, operating around the clock to make sure the world knew what was happening in her country.”

A Ukrainian official, Anton Gerashchenko, had earlier announced that Kuvshynova had died. He said that they were attacked by mortar or artillery fire by Russian forces.

Scott said that they held off on reporting the news of...

Updated, 12:02 Pm Pt: The Fox News journalist who was injured in Ukraine on Monday was correspondent Benjamin Hall.

Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott, in a memo to employees, said that “we have a minimal level of detail right now,” but that Hall was hospitalized.

“Our teams on the ground are working to gather additional information as the situation quickly unfolds,” she said.

Fox News anchor John Roberts read the memo on America Reports.

“This is a stark reminder for all journalists who putting their lives on the line every day to deliver the news from the war zone. We will update everyone as we know more. Please keep Ben and his family in your prayers,” Scott wrote.

Hall joined the network in 2015 and is based in Washington, D.C., serving as State Department correspondent. He also has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, and has anchored primetime...

An ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine dating back to the collapse of the Soviet Union has become a full-out war with global — and commercial — reverberations. Russia’s booming film and TV industry, with its deep, government-backed coffers, lost its grip on the world stage virtually overnight amid growing fallout from Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.

Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and Paramount all paused distribution of new movies in Russia, and “SNL” opened last weekend’s show with a Ukrainian chorus in solidarity with the country under attack. Cannes barred the Russian delegation from attending its May festival.

For Ukraine’s creative community, the situation is a matter of life-or-death. Though the Russian attack has met with fierce Ukrainian resistance, millions have been forced into makeshift shelters to escape bombings. The United Nations has so far recorded more than 100 deaths. On March 1, Russian bombs targeted a TV tower in Ukrainian capital Kyiv,...

As Russian military forces continue to invade Ukraine, Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst says he is focused on the “pursuit of truth” even as some of the network’s top anchors minimize the situation.

“We have no direction in what we do other than pursuit of the truth and to bring the latest stories to our viewers to make people care about it,” Yingst told TheWrap. “My focus every day is, ‘How can I do that? How can I make people care about a story?’ And in the three-and-a-half years that I’ve been involved at Fox, they have given me the space to report.”

Yingst, who is among four Fox News correspondents in Ukraine, is joined in Kyiv by correspondent Steve Harrigan. The network also has two reporters in Lviv, Mike Tobin and Lucas Tomlinson.

“There’s a commitment to getting those stories,” Yingst said of the decision...

Broadcast and cable networks have news teams in place in Ukraine as attention focuses on the possibility of an invasion, perhaps as soon as this week.

President Joe Biden will deliver remarks on the situation at the White House on Tuesday.

While Russian President Vladimir Putin said that they were continuing to negotiate, and there were claims of a pullback for some troops, there also were reports of skepticism among NATO allies.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that the U.S. was “temporarily relocating” Embassy operations in Kyiv to Lviv “due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces.”

In addition to having teams in Washington focused on the escalating crisis, networks have correspondents on the ground in Ukraine, in some cases adding reporters. CNN’s Erin Burnett anchored her show, Erin Burnett OutFront, from Lviv on Monday.

ABC News has senior national correspondent...

Fox News Middle East correspondent Trey Yingst, who has spent the past few days reporting on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan from that country and nearby Qatar, told TheWrap that “empathy is critical” when covering stories in conflict zones — and stressed the importance of maintaining your mental health while working in high-stress locales.

“As journalists we are often there on the worst day of someone’s life. Afghanistan was no exception,” said Yingst, who flew to Doha, Qatar, on Sunday along with other Afghan evacuees after reporting live from Kabul to document the unrest in the Afghan capital. “We always need to remember that having empathy is critical to being a solid reporter. Every single person on that plane has dreams, desires and aspirations. They feel fear, happiness and anxiety just like anyone else.”

Yingst, an outspoken advocate for mental health issues, noted how journalists need to prioritize their mental health while covering difficult subjects.

Fox News said it has helped to evacuate four Afghan freelancers and their associates — 24 people in all — as part of a larger move by media organizations to secure an exit from the country for nationals who have helped their on the ground efforts in the region.

In a memo to staffers on Sunday, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said the company, part of Fox Corp., had “evacuated three Afghan nationals who formerly served as freelance associates, as well as an Afghan colleague from a regional media company, along with their respective families” from Kabul. All the people were moved to Qatar.

“These associates include consultants who served as local producers, translators, drivers and security guards supporting our correspondents throughout Fox’s coverage of the was in Afghanistan for nearly two decades.”

Other media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Fox Corp.

The dangers of covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been ever apparent in multiple TV live shots during the past week, as network correspondents describe the tense situation against a backdrop of incoming missiles and falling shrapnel.

When NBC News’ Richard Engel went live on MSNBC from the outskirts of Ramallah on the West Bank on Tuesday, the scene was of chaos, with the sound of cracking in the air, demonstrators gathering and then scattering and then of what sounded like gunfire.

“You are always keeping your eyes open,” Engel told Stephanie Ruhle. “And the biggest thing you want to you want to be concerned about is live ammunition. That is what you really want to be afraid of.” Soon he put on a helmet, as he looked, cautiously, around him.

Fox News’ Trey Yingst has delivered a number of live reports showing Israel’s Iron Dome as it intercepted missiles from Gaza.

President Donald Trump’s press briefing had a flurry of newsworthy statements, updates and some startling moments.

Days after saying that a lot of the media “actually has been really fair” in its coverage of the coronavirus crisis, on Thursday he was back to calling a number of news outlets “dishonest.”

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Near the end of the briefing, Chanel Rion, chief White House correspondent for One America News Network, the right-wing outlet, asked him, “Do you consider the term Chinese food racist, because it is food that originated in China or has Chinese origin?”

“No, I don’t think it is racist,” Trump responded.

Rion continued, “On that note, the major left-wing news media, even in this room,...

Attention, Shepard Smith: You could have a job waiting for you at CNN.

Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN Worldwide, suggested at an event held by the network Thursday that the AT&T-owned news outlet would be “open” to speaking with the former Fox News Channel anchor when he is allowed to start looking for a new job. Smith left Fox News Channel abruptly earlier this month after clashing publicly with Tucker Carlson, one of the network’s primetime opinion hosts.

Zucker, who also is chairman of the news and sports properties of AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit, said he was not surprised Smith left Fox News Channel, noting that he felt Smith’s continued tenure there had become untenable. “I’ve said before, it’s akin to state run TV. I think it has morphed into conspiracy TV. It’s not a place where someone like Shep Smith could work,...

Shepard Smith has left the Fox News building, but his hour will remain staffed by employees from the network’s news division.

Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Shannon Bream, Martha MacCallum, Bill Hemmer and John Roberts are among the Fox News Channel news anchors who will do a stint in the 3 p.m. hour vacated late last week by Shepard Smith, the veteran anchor whose departure stunned Fox News staffers as well as many media observers. Fox News executives will likely unveil a new, news-focused hour in the timeslot next year with a specific anchor, Jay Wallace, president and executive editor of Fox News Media, told Variety in an interview. Trace Gallagher, a Los Angeles-based correspondent, will kick off a stint at 3 p.m. today, he said.

“This is going to remain a solid news hour, with our best news stars,” Wallace said, adding: “Journalism is a huge part of the mandate here.

Comedian Michelle Wolf has fired back at critics of her scorched-earth set at last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner.

Twitter continues to percolate today, with hashtags from the night comprising more than half of the top 10 trending topics. Republicans naturally have pounced on the set, which spared few in the Trump Administration or the media. Donald Trump, who did not attend, tweeted that Wolf “really ‘bombed,'” putting the word in quotes for reasons that remain unclear. When former press secretary Sean Spicer called the whole event a “disgrace,” Wolf replied with a simple “thank you!”

Because Wolf took aim at press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and commented on her makeup, there was also plenty of criticism in the center and on the left side of the aisle. Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe,...

The White House's on lockdown after someone jumped a fence Tuesday afternoon. The area outside the White House was cleared after an individual hopped the bike rack along the north fence line on Pennsylvania Ave. ... according to the Secret Service. They report the suspect is now in custody but the White House remains on lockdown. The White House has been hit by a series of fence jumpers ... some lingering on the grounds and going unnoticed by the Secret Service.