Trey Yingst is a man who’s always on the move. At 30 years old, he's already a seasoned journalist with plenty of stamps in his passport. In 2018, he moved to Israel for Fox News and last month, he was promoted to chief foreign correspondent for the channel. He uses Tel Aviv as a home base while traveling to other hot spots—Ukraine, Afghanistan—to provide sustained coverage from the region. Known for quick, precise and consequential journalism, Yingst says he's continuously striving for clarity in the fog of war.

The guy must have nerves of steel—maintaining a sense of routine and calm while reporting from areas that most people are fleeing. Yingst has a new schedule every day. When he wakes up, he never knows if he'll need to travel to wherever the news may take him.

Currently, he's reporting on the escalating conflict in Israel—which he's called one of the most challenging assignments he's ever been on. Next month, his new book about the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 will be released. Yingst was on the ground along the Gaza border and Black Saturday is his firsthand account of the devastation, shock and retaliation that led to the ensuing war. We had to know, how does a war correspondent start his day? Does he even worry about skin care and to-do lists in the midst of all that chaos? Here's what Yingst had to say.

My mornings can be tough.

Most of the time I'm reporting in a timezone that's at least seven hours ahead of the east coast, so I'll usually stay awake until 2 or 3 am.

But sleep is vital, right?

I try to get as much as I can, when I can. Normally, I will wake up around 10 am. I'll aim for seven or eight hours a night, when I can. But when we're covering breaking news, those numbers quickly get reduced to two to three hours a night.

There are often times when I don’t get a full night’s sleep for weeks.

The news can be demanding. I also will pull “all nighters” when a big story is developing. Early in the war, rocket sirens and explosions often interrupted my sleep patterns.

When you’re traveling like this, you need an alarm to wake up.

I set a few alarms on my phone, but usually wake up after the first one goes off. I'm always curious to check what updates I missed overnight and immediately start reporting.

Once I look at my phone, I go into work mode.

I check X and then my email. Then I'll look through WhatsApp and Signal to catch up with my team and see if I received any new information from sources. I feel like I can't wait—I need to respond to emails right away. I get a lot of messages, so I try to answer them in real time to stay on top of things.

The first person I talk to ...

Is my producer to see when our live reports are scheduled and what developments we have from overnight.

My nightstand is fairly empty at the moment.

Just the essentials—a bottle of water and a phone charger. I don't like having much clutter around. Especially where I sleep.