Brian Entin Covered Crime and Hurricanes. Then His Boss Said, “You Need to Get to Qatar Right Away.”

He argues that NewsNation’s structure as a “nimble” upstart encourages the kind of quick decision-making that allowed him the opportunity to report on the ground: “They’re not afraid to say, ‘Let’s just get on a plane,’ which is, I think, the reason that we were the only US network here.” Entin adds, “Some of the other, more old-school networks—NBC, ABC, Fox​—they’ve got a lot of rules in place and a lot of red tape. His latest stint as a foreign correspondent was so different from his usual true-crime fare that some of Entin’s followers reached out to express concern that he might not make it back in time to cover the trial of Bryan Kohberger, who will be tried, starting in August, for the murders of four students at the University of Idaho. And my boss [Cherie Grzech] was like, “I think you need to get to Qatar right away because the biggest US military base in the Middle East is in Qatar.

Author: Natalie Korach

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