Filmmaker, former NYT correspondent Brent Renaud murdered in Irpin.

[femmedem]

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Brent Renaud is a Peabody and DuPont Award winning filmmaker and has spent the past two decades producing films and television programs with his brother Craig. The Renaud Brothers are best known for telling humanistic stories from the World's hot spots and their projects have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the earthquake in Haiti, political turmoil in Egypt and Libya, the fight for Mosul, extremism in Africa, cartel violence in Mexico, and the youth refugee crisis in Central America.

Their work has won many of the top awards in television and journalism, including a Peabody Award, two Columbia DuPont Awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, an IDA Award, a DGA nomination for Best Directors and multiple Emmy nominations. Their films have also received critical acclaim in Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Forbes, USA Today, the New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and American Cinematographer. Craig and his brother Brent also founded the Little Rock Film Festival and the Arkansas Motion Picture Institute.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1863692/bio

[revmclaren]

1. ...

[Meowmee]

2. 😿

[WiVoter]

3. Terrible

[FalloutShelter]

4. No words.

[2naSalit]

5. ...

[yardwork]

6. Targeting civilians, children, journalists...

[PatSeg]

7. Yes, guess it is easier than

killing armed soldiers.

[yardwork]

8. Cowards. Putin is a coward.

[Cha]

39. An Ugly Snively little

Insane Murdering Coward who needs to be put out of our misery.

💙💛

[ck4829]

9. ...

[MissMillie]

10. too sad

Let there be no mistake--he died serving his country.


Thank you.

RIP

[Donkees]

11. His colleague:

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[BootinUp]

12. .

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[Lonestarblue]

13. Deliberate, no doubt. Putin doesn't want news of his atrocities reaching the world.

[Mr. Evil]

14. When Putin first came to power,

I felt a sense of dread. Being ex-KGB I knew his brain was warped beyond repair. Humanity means nothing to him. His world is nothing but whatever lies will work to exploit and manipulate people into facilitating his objectives. Of course those objectives are beneficial to him and his complicit inner circle and not so much to anyone else. This phony tough-guy callousness is becoming increasingly rampant here in the US, too. It simultaneously saddens and infuriates me as I'm sure it does to many others.

Sometimes I wonder if we never let sociopaths like these rise to power, what kind of advanced society we could all have.

[SergeStorms]

28. Your description of Putin...

sounds alarmingly like his pal at Mar-ma-lardo, without any military service, of course. Not a speck of empathy between the two of them.

It's shocking that those two were once in charge of the two most powerful countries in the world at the same time. We got rid of ours, but it's a bit more difficult for the Russian people to get rid of theirs.

[Mr. Evil]

31. It seems that Putin is the human equivalent of a bedbug.

[SergeStorms]

50. Trump knows all about those!

Wasn't one of his Florida golf resorts infested with bedbugs at one time? Doral, I think it was. Of course none of Trump's bedbugs reached Putin's size.

[Mr. Evil]

51. I believe you're correct.

Once a slumlord, always a slumlord.

[ariadne0614]

34. +1 n/t

[RockCreek]

35. That is a wonderful question

Re: "Sometimes I wonder if we never let sociopaths like these rise to power, what kind of advanced society we could all have."
That is a wonderful question. I will be pondering it. Perhaps it would be worth posting as a prompt on DU in less active times. Although I wonder when those "less active times" will even arise.

[soldierant]

48. A question which has to be answered before asking "What kind if advanced society"

is "How the heck do we prevent sociopaths from rising to the top?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_in_Suits

We've seen it said that Trump**, for instance, is a poor man's idea of a rich man, and a weak man's idea of a strong man. Too many socio[[aths are an incompetent person's idea of a competent person. Is there any way to educate people out of that when they are being taught it at their mother's (or maybe even more likely their father's) knee?

[ChazII]

15. Condolences to his family, friends and co-workers.

[Marthe48]

16. R.I.P. Mr. Renauld

n/t

[cate94]

17. ...

[Wingus Dingus]

18. Sad. Trying to document the atrocities.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. NYT says he had worked for them, but wasn't currently:

Brent Renaud, an American journalist, is killed in Ukraine.

Brent Renaud, an award-winning American filmmaker and journalist, was killed in Ukraine on Sunday while reporting in a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.

Mr. Renaud, 50, had worked for a number of American news and media organizations in the past, including HBO, NBC and The New York Times. The Ukrainian authorities said he was killed in Irpin, a suburb that has been the site of intense shelling by Russian forces in recent days, but the details of his death were not immediately clear. Ukrainian officials said another journalist was wounded as well.
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Mr. Renaud had contributed to The Times in previous years, most recently in 2015, but he was not on assignment for the company in Ukraine. Early reports that he was working for The Times in Ukraine circulated because he was found with a Times press badge that had been issued for an assignment years ago.

“We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death,” said Danielle Rhoades Ha, a spokeswoman for The Times. “Brent was a talented filmmaker.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/world/europe/brent-renaud-irpin.html

[BComplex]

30. Well, that's weird.

Early reports that he was working for The Times in Ukraine circulated because he was found with a Times press badge that had been issued for an assignment years ago.

I guess if you're an independent journalist in a war zone, having an old press badge is, like, golden.

RIP, word warrior!

[Ninga]

20. I have nothing to offer but tears........

[milestogo]

21. ...

[paleotn]

22. Damn.

Very brave man in a corner of journalism filled with very brave people. Literally risk their lives to report the truth. RIP.

[littlemissmartypants]

23. ...

[Liberal In Texas]

24. RIP. Yesterday on Velshi some Ukrainians said that if the ruskies saw anybody using their phones

to take pictures, that they were confiscating them and smashing them.

I have the awful feeling that there is a new directive from the monster Putin to target journalists or anybody trying to document the war crimes.

The more these atrocities happen, the more I think that we're going to get directly involved to stop them.

[niyad]

25. . . .

[Raine]

26. 💔🕯️

[hkp11]

27. RIP

Journalists are in harms way when going in war zones (well this is Putin invasion and destruction of Ukraine and innocent deaths) and doing great jobs informing people of what is taking place.

[femmedem]

29. Some of his films from his website:

https://www.renaudbrothers.com/film

[Liberty Belle]

32. Tragic - NYT says he was not on assignment with them,however

and hadn't written for them since 2015. The confusion came because he was carrying an old NYT press pass.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/world/europe/brent-renaud-irpin.html

Awful that Putin may be targeting foreign journalists now.

[FakeNoose]

33. Brent Renaud died a hero, peacefully serving the people of Ukraine

Rest in Peace, Brent Renaud!

[Blue Owl]

36. ...

[whathehell]

37. So sorry to hear this..

[calimary]

38. Sadly, there will probably be more.

The drive to get the story has a powerful pull.

[TomWilm]

40. Very possible Russian soldiers are behind this ...

... "but the details of his death were not immediately clear".

Then better to wait for more details...

[femmedem]

42. It's good not to jump to conclusions, but reply #11 is an account by the other journalist. n/t

[TomWilm]

45. #11 Does not really help ...

... the poor guy says something about "2nd check point", but I hear no other identification yet - and he did not make that subject line.

The bigger news agencies still writes: "Reportedly killed by Russian forces".

BTW I would not give interview with a bullet in my ass, since I would be too busy sobbing.

[femmedem]

46. I wouldn't be able to give an interview under those conditions either!

Btw, I never specified who killed him.

[SunSeeker]

41. Horrible.

[smirkymonkey]

43. Such a tragic loss.

Rest in Peace, Mr. Renaud.

[denbot]

44. .

[LetMyPeopleVote]

47. A colleague described US journalist Brent Renaud as "gifted and kind,

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[Upthevibe]

49. .....................

................. R.I.P.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

52. President Zelenskyy is a mensch.

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[femmedem]

53. Incredible that he or his staff took the time to write this letter amidst everything else going on.

A true testament to Renaud's courage and humanity--and yes, Zelensky is a mensch.