Benjamin Hall (journalist)

Hall grew up in London, as a dual citizen, holding both US and UK passports.[2] He studied at Ampleforth College, City of London School, and Duke University,[3] and received a BA from Richmond University, London.

He received a post graduate diploma in television journalism from the University of the Arts, London.

Hall began his career as a journalist focusing on the Middle East. Since 2007, he has written from the front lines for The New York Times, The Times of London, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The BBC, and other outlets, often as one of the first journalists on the ground.[4][5]

Over the last few years, Hall has traveled to Syria and Iraq, repeatedly filing dispatches for BBC Radio and Agence France Presse, as well as the aforementioned publications — often from behind enemy lines and embedded with rebel and regime troops.[6]

Hall smuggled himself into Misrata, Libya during the height of the siege, and reported for Esquire Magazine, Channel 4 News, and others regarding Muammar Qaddafi’s indiscriminate shelling of the local population. In 2014, he embedded with UN troops during the siege of the Mogadishu parliament, writing for The Times. He has reported from Egypt, Haiti, and Iran. He was a jury member of the London Kurdish film festival.[7]

On 14 March 2022, he was injured while on assignment reporting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in Ukraine outside of Kyiv.[8][9][2] The vehicle Hall was traveling in was attacked; Hall was wounded in the legs while Fox war zone photo journalist and Irish citizen Pierre Zakrzewski, aged 55, was killed in the incident in Horenka, Kyiv Oblast.[10][11][12][13] Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshinova, aged 24, was also killed in the attack.[14][15]

Three weeks after the attack, Hall reported on Twitter that he had lost half of one leg, his foot on the other leg, suffered loss of function in one eye, damage to his hearing and injuries to a hand. He also paid tribute to his deceased colleagues.[16]