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A collection of articles about covering the war from OpenDemocracy, Reporters without Borders and Sky News Photo: March 2022: Journalists cover a Russian attack on Kyiv | (c) Abaca Press / Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved (cropped. Full image below) 02 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News This is only a fraction…
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Clipper Media Watch: Today: Media coverage of the war, Ukraine Propaganda, Stonehenge, Team Penske, Pickleball, Shanghai Disneyland Photo: The National Trust cares for more than 800 hectares of the landscape surrounding the Stonehenge monument. Photograph: James Dobson/National Trust 21 March 2022 | James Porteous | Today: Media coverage of the war, Ukraine Propaganda, Stonehenge, Team Penske,…
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The recent death of ‘fixer’ Oleksandra Kuvshynova in Ukraine should remind us of the importance – and the risks- of journalism’s unsung heroes. Photo: A platform that makes foreign reporting a little easier. Photograph: Screen grab 18 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News This report includes an article on the deaths of Oleksandra…
The Kyiv Independent, Ukraine’s English-language media outlet, was created by journalists after The Kyiv Post went silent on 08 November 2021. Photo: The Kyiv Independent Masthead 04 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Read The Kyiv Independent About The Kyiv Independent The Kyiv Independent is Ukraine’s English-language media outlet, created by journalists…
Robert Fisk was said to be ‘fearless, uncompromising, determined and utterly committed to uncovering the truth and reality of the Middle East at all costs.’ 02 November 2020 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News I will admit, when I started working for Al Jazeera English as Visual Archivist in Washington, DC I knew almost…
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In 1967, Canadian journalist wrote about Indigenous boy named Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack who ran away from a residential school and died trying to get home. Gord Downie based one of his final projects on the feature. Photo: Writer, photographer Ian Adams’s 1967 article ‘The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack’ inspired Gord Downie’s Secret Path. (Jody Porter/CBC)…
The Cradle is a wonderful journalist-driven publication covering West Asia, representing tens of millions of regional voices not heard in the world’s English-language media. 02 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media I first found out about The Cradle after reading one of their Pepe Escobar articles reprinted in another publication. As usual, it told me more…
Photo: The masks come off: from July 19, there will be no legal requirement in England to wear a face covering.Neil Hall/EPA-EFE 19 July 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Oh dear. This could be problematic. The words ‘covid’ and ‘propaganda’ in the same headline? The original author is probably safe from viral contusions…
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16 July 2021 | Euronews Euronews is pleased to announce the launch of Euronews WITNESS, a series that takes you inside the most burning crises and conflicts unfolding across Europe and around the world. Our correspondents will be on the ground meeting those who trigger the crises and those who suffer the consequences. Euronews Witness is…
Photo: Lam Man-chung, executive editor-in-chief of Apple Daily, applauds colleagues on the paper’s last day. Photograph: Lam Yik/Reuters 27 June 2021 | Anonymous | Guardian A Hong Kong police national security operation has forced the closure of the city’s most vocal and pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. Its senior executives arrested, companies charged, and accounts frozen, the paper survived for…
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More trouble at Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong newspaper with the arrest of Chan Pui-man for allegedly violating National Security Law. 18 June 2021 | Staff | Apple Daily Junior journalists generally like to refer to Chan Pui-man as “Man Ze” (“older sis Man”). She is the associate publisher of Apple Daily and gatekeeper of the…
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Photo: Ralph Nader 29 May 2021 | Ralph Nader | Eurasiareview Reporters at major newspapers and magazines are hard to reach by telephone. Today it is increasingly difficult to converse with them about timely scoops, leads, gaps in coverage, and corrections to published articles. We started an online webpage: Reporter’s Alert. From time to time, we…
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