‘I almost got hit’: the Ukrainian journalists turned war correspondents overnight
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Initially writing stories and making television reports was secondary for the journalists as many focused on survival
by Isobel Koshiw of The Guardian, Tue 10...
Russian soldiers to face avalanche of war crimes trials. What next?
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Vienna, May 14, 2020
by Edward Steen, AEJ Secretary-General
The personal tragedies inflicted on Ukrainian families are often unbearable for reporters to witness or hear about....
Turkey’s president objects to Finland and Sweden’s Nato applications
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Erdoğan accuses both countries of harbouring Kurdish "terrorists"
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is threatening to bounce Finnish and Swedish membership of Nato, on the...
Baltic countries close ranks against Russia
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(ES) Vienna, May 12, 2022
As Sweden and Finland prepare to join NATO in the face of "military-technical" threats from Moscow, AEJ member Roberto Sciarrone,...
20 colleagues killed in Ukraine so far – journalism “tougher and tougher” ´-
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(ES) Vienna, May 5, 2022
But so are its defenders....
Mouthpiece of liberal capitalism since it was founded in 1843, the London Economist has undergone a...
Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war
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As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world
by Simon Schama
Bad...
Al Jazeera correspondent gunned down on West Bank
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es Vienna, May 11, 2022 Updated 16/05/22 with investigation by Bellingcat + Newsweek article by Rabbi Mark Goldfeder "Tragic Death Has Brought Out All...
The biter bit – official media and TV hacked by two anti-war Russian journalists
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(es) May 10, 22, Vienna
Two anti-war hackers working for one of the main Russian news-sites, Lenta.ru, fled the country and from abroad posted online...
What kind of Victory Day?
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(es) Vienna, May 9, 2022 UPDATED MIDNIGHT
“They made a desert,” the Roman historian Tacitus wrote of Rome’s warfare tactics, attributing the words to the...
Digital Authoritarianism at War: Controlling Russia’s Information Space
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by Laura Howells and Laura A. Henry
What are the implications of Russia’s crackdown on internet freedom within its borders? How does Moscow’s digital authoritarianism...