Fox News' Benjamin Hall Plans Return

In the hours and days that followed a missile strike that killed his colleagues, it was uncertain if Benjamin Hall would survive the injuries he sustained during the attack while covering Russia’s war in Ukraine for Fox News.

Today, one of the network’s leading foreign correspondents is eyeing a remarkable return to the field after a lengthy rehabilitation process — one that has highlighted the dangers journalists covering the ongoing conflict constantly face while reporting from a war zone. 

“In many senses I was broken, mentally and physically,” Hall said of the last 12 months during a recent conversation with The Hill. “You lose so many things, and what happened is I was slowly rebuilt.“

“It was a slow process — sometimes a very difficult process,” Hall added.

But Hall feels the most grueling part of his recovery is behind him and is itching to get back onto television screens across the country as soon as he can. He said he plans in the coming weeks to begin conversations with Fox’s leadership about what a return to work might look like. 

Hall, a Duke University graduate, joined Fox News in 2015, first serving in the network’s London bureau covering wars in Syria and Afghanistan, and then as Fox’s U.S. State Department correspondent. In 2022, he was deployed to Europe to cover Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Hall was severely injured last spring as part of an attack that killed Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and local Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova. Ukrainian government officials have blamed Russian forces for the attack, which happened just outside the capital city of Kyiv.