The headline on a UNESCO report from last December sums up a grim reality: “Journalists killed in 2024: a heavy death toll in conflict zones for the second year running.”

In Gaza, in Ukraine, and in other battlegrounds around the world, photojournalists and reporters continue to risk their lives to document the brutal impact of war on combatants and innocent civilians. What compels them to take on such dangerous assignments? Two new Oscar-contending documentaries provide insight into that important but unsettling question.

On the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we open the mic to Love+War co-director E. Chai Vasarhelyi and the protagonist of her documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario. We also speak with Craig Renaud, director of Armed

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