Peter Bale - curated media and journalism news - Ukraine, BBC, FT, and more
In the best tradition of bearing witness, these AP correspondents stay to describe what it going as Russian forces do an Aleppo in Ukraine.
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Excellent podcast with an old friend, Natalia Antelava from CodaStory. She explains brilliantly how the disinformation sewn by Russia over decades adds to the sense of crisis in Ukraine.
Another excellent podcast, from the BBC, and the episode on families in Ukraine is brilliant and heart-breaking as a BBC Ukraine reporter describes how she no longer talks to her family which believes Russian propaganda. She says it with such courage and determination to keep on.
I admire this kind of work and the attempt to add value beyond the daily news cycle to understand what is really going on. I love it from historians and others who have done the real work to try to understand the motivations by Putin and what is really going on.
Quite interesting to see the New York Times going where few media organisations in the UK have dared to go, apart from Carole Cadwalladr of course. It is a big thing to call out these ratbags and their connections.
A new poll finds Americans very anxious about the state of free speech.
Not sure I agree with the premise of this and it has caused predictable howls of outrage from the free speech priests. I am one who doesn't believe cancel culture really exists outside the right and the real difference is that people who behave like arseholes tend to get called out for it.
Howl of outrage number 97.
I have previously described Chris Cuomo as an over-promoted bobble head and I have no reason to change this view. The fact his bosses appear to have behaved just about as badly as he did doesn't really help.
Journalist credits role of producers, camera people and technical support in coverage of war
From the "I don't know how she does it" department. Lyse has been astounding, along with her colleagues at the BBC, and the fact she takes the time to remind us she is standing on the shoulders of others is remarkable and typical of her modesty, fairness and courage.
I mentioned some handy resources for journalists and others in this item about how the Ukraine crisis is a time for journalists to re-establish trust, as part of an INMA project on Newsrooms I have something to do with.
Greg comments on ways in which publishers, smartly, are talking to readers and subscribers to explain what they are doing about Ukraine.
Regularly updated count of journalists killed in Ukraine: as of now it is four.
The latest thing I do each week for New Zealand site, The Spinoff.
A little thing I wrote for a New Zealand publication.