by jpitney | Apr 3, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
Caroline Vakil at The Hill: The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reported on Saturday that Russian forces had shot and killed a Ukrainian photojournalist and that authorities had found his body. The office said in a statement on Facebook that Maxim Levin had...
by jpitney | Mar 23, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Ukraine
At Time, Sebastian Unger writes of journalists who risk death: Without the work of these brave people there could be no such thing as democracy or freedom in the world—elections would be stolen, war crimes would be denied, injustices would be hidden. In a world...
by jpitney | Mar 16, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter, CNN Business: Monday attack on a Fox News crew reporting near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv left two of the network’s journalists dead and its correspondent severely injured, the channel said on Tuesday. Killed in the attack were...
by jpitney | Mar 13, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
From The Independent: Brent Renaud, an award-winning US filmmaker and former contributor to The New York Times, was fatally shot by Russian forces in Irpin, close to Kyiv, according to officials in Ukraine. The Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, working...
by jpitney | Jan 24, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Vaccine
Del Bigtree, I survived a murderous mass shooting in my newsroom. My head nearly taken off by a shotgun blast, missing by an inch. Five Capital Gazette family members were killed around me. Your thoughts/words are disgusting/inhuman. No one should have such hate in...
