Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst emphasized the importance of “unfrightened, unwavering, and unwavering” journalism on Thursday night, when he was recognized at the RTDNA Foundation's 2025 First Amendment Award.
The RtDNA Foundation, the philanthropy arm of the Radio Television Digital News Association, honored Yingst with a black tie dinner at the famous Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC every year. Previous recipients include journalists, US House of Representatives and US Senators.
“Thank you to the RTDNA Foundation for this incredible honor. Our world-class reporting credits belong to Fox's executive team, including the Murdoch family, my crew, CEO Suzanne Scott, President Jay Wallace, President Jay Wallace, and Senior Vice President Ailena Briganty, who is here tonight.
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Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst was recognized at the RTDNA Foundation's 1st Amendment Awards of 2025. (BP mirror)
“Thank you to my dad, you believed in me before someone else. When I was 19, when I posted a news report on YouTube saying no one saw it, you believed this was possible,” Yingst continued. “As an international reporter, I have a great privilege and responsibility to travel around the world and tell the stories of others. Over the past few years, my team and I have recently reported from nearly 20 different countries, from Ukraine, Syria and Israel.”
The Inst covers conflicts around the world, including the Israeli-Hamas War, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the 2021 withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. He also highlighted the “brave Palestinian journalists” in Gaza who risked their lives to practice journalism skills.
“We live in a dangerous period of attacks on journalists, misinformation, and efforts to silence those who hold the truth in power. Our work is more important than ever. The first revision is more important than ever,” Yingst said.
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Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst and Pierre Thomas of ABC News served as the Master of Ceremony for the event.
“If you take anything away from what I said today, let's do it. The people in this room will be played by each and every one of you, acting as a fourth estate, capturing the human experience, becoming voiceless,” he added. “Journalists are not the enemy of people.”
Yingst said the opposite is indeed true.
“Journalists are the voice of people. May they continue to use that voice in a fearless, unwavering, and awful way,” he said.
The award, according to the RtDNA Foundation, “celebrating the initial revision and bold and brave efforts, to protect it, many people protect it.”
“As the world endures conflicts across multiple continents, Trey Inst has the incredible ability to humanize fear, it becomes more realistic for the audience. He is also an industry leader, defending safety and mental health resources for journalists who witness trauma to repeatedly share it.” rtdna foundation Yingst said in a statement when he was selected.
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Trey Inst covers conflicts around the world, including the Israeli-Hamas War, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021.
“Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Breem, Fox News Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin and correspondent Lucasto Mlinson were also present to support the Instrument.
Previous First Amendment Award winners include Walter Cronkite, Sam Donaldson, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Bob Woodruff and Evan Gershkovich.
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Last year, Yingst wrote Fox News Books' New York Times bestseller “Black Saturday: Unfiltered accounts of the attacks on Israel and the war in Gaza on October 7th,” and “The Gold Standards of Storytelling on what happened in southern Israel on October 7th and subsequent wars.”
Based on the book of the same name, the Fox Nation series includes Yingst and the Fox Erusalem Bureau Team to cover the devastating terrorist attacks, as well as the Chief Foreign Correspondent of Fox News, who has experienced the aftermath of a horrific massacre across the Israeli community along the Gaza border and enters the Gaza Strip during Israeli land invasion.
