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The Guardian - US
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Raima Amjad in Los Angeles

‘Brent’s end was poetic’: the life and death of first US journalist killed in Russia-Ukraine war

A man in a blazer and collared shirt, no tie, smiling.
Brent Renaud at the 74th annual Peabody awards, on 31 May 2015 in New York. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

It’s a journalist’s role to stay behind the scenes. But sometimes, a reporter’s extraordinary life becomes the story itself.

Such is the case with Brent Renaud, an award-winning documentary film-maker who was the first American journalist killed, at the age of 50, in the Russia-Ukraine war. His life and death are captured in a new, intimate documentary that debuted in Los Angeles at the 21st annual HollyShorts film festival earlier this month.

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